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

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Aug 8 11:49:02 PDT 2006


Hi Till, Thanks for the fast response. I filed
https://launchpad.net/products/cupsys/+bug/55685
One of the developers points out that the process of auto-generation is
quite slow....

Walter




Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 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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