[cups.general] Telling CUPS where gs is?

[Klaus Singvogel]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Andrew McCall wrote:
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> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I am having a problem with a non-postcript printer.  Whenever I print
> > anything the jobs get cancelled straight away.  After turning debugging on I
> > found that its because CUPS can't call gs:
> > 
> > E [07/Dec/2004:10:48:00 +0000] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format
> > for job 38!
> > I [07/Dec/2004:10:48:00 +0000] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
> > 
> > I am running on Solaris 9, and espgs is installed top /opt/sfw/espgs/bin/gs,
> > but CUPS doesn't seem to see this.  I have tried creating a symbolic link
> > from /opt/sfw/espgs/bin/gs to /usr/bin/gs and /usr/bin/local/gs, but CUPS
> > still comes back with the above error.
> > 
> > Where does CUPS expect gs to be?  How can I tell CUPS that gs is actually in
> > /opt/sfw/espgs/bin/gs?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > Andrew McCall
> 
> Look at your CUPS installation parameters. If the installation
> prefix is empty, put gs into /bin,
> if the prefix is, e.g. /usr/local, put gs into /usr/local/bin.

Helge Thanks for your ongoing and always present support.

But this time, I think its better to modify $PATH in the foomatic
filter to his environment. :-) 

Andrew, locate your foomatic script (maybe something like this:
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) and edit it. Add
"/opt/sfw/espgs/bin" (without "-signs) to the path variable $execpath,
which is separate by colon signs ':'. Dont forget to keep a copy
of foomatic-rip, just in any case. :-)

Best regards,
	Klaus.
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