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

[Matt Zimmerman]

That version is available in our development branch (edgy) to be included
with the October release.  If there's a simple and safe patch there that we
can backport to Dapper, please let us known.

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:48:14PM +0200, 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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 - mdz