[cups.general] foomatic and cups: how to make autogenaration work via cups web interface?

[Till Kamppeter]

Your foomatic-db-engine package is too old. You need at least 20060420
(April 20, 2006) to get this working. With this package installed the
Foomatic PPDs should appear automatically. Especially you should have a
symbolic link /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic which points to
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile (NOTE: Manually setting this link does not
work with older versions of foomatic-db-engine).

If Ubuntu does not provide this version, file a bug at Ubuntu.

   Till

wtautz wrote:
> Running Ubuntu/Dapper and I've installed
> 
> ii  foomatic-db                  20060408-1ubuntu1            
> linuxprinting.org printer support - database
> ii  foomatic-db-engine           3.0.2-20060318-1ubuntu1      
> linuxprinting.org printer support - programs
> ii  foomatic-db-gutenprint       5.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu6           
> linuxprinting.org printer support - database
> ii  foomatic-filters             3.0.2-20060318-2             
> linuxprinting.org printer support - filters
> 
> in particular I have not installed foomatic-filters-ppds as I would like
> to have the PPD files
> generated dynamically. I have tried to do this via the webinterface for
> cups-1.2.2 (Ubuntu packaged)
> package but I don't see anything with a foomatic reference. I have tried
> reading the docs
> associated with cups and foomatic at linuxprinting.org and I haven't
> found anything other
> run foomatic manually. I seem to recall that one can add a softlink in
> cups somewhere
> that will allow auto generation? The only thing I see currently is
> CUPS+Gutenprint in the listing
> given on cups webpage configuration where one is to choose a PPD file.
> The fact that
> gutenprint shows up is likely due to the presence of the package
> cupsys-driver-gutenprint.
> 
> 
> Walter
> 
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