[cups.general] renderer command

[Anonymous]

Thanks. The PPD's I used are all from official debian packages.
Since those are apparently broken, how should I go about installing
my printer? (which packages should I have installed, where to get and put the PPD file, and how to instruct cups to use it?)

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> > I believe this was generated by the kde control center when
> > configuring my printer. I have both the
> > Gimp-Print package installed and the foomatic one.
> > I'd try installing the printer straight from CUPS, but for some odd
> > reason I can't seem to connect to
> > localhost:631, although kcontrol does seem to connect there.
> > [...]
>
> There is a severe bug in your PPD. The line
> *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: ""
> defines an empty command to be executed by foomatic-rip, which is
> illegal. Instead, if your printer is a native PostScript printer,
> this keyword should *not* be present - foomatic-rip then uses the
> cat command to pass on the print stream.
>
> As it is, foomatic-rip tries to execute an empty command which fails,
> of course (and leads to a shell syntax error when using the
> debug switch).
>
> Get a correct PPD.
>
> Helge
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