CUPS not "finding" ESP ghostscript

[Helge Blischke]

bob at urban.csuohio.edu wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> This may be a silly question but I am working with very little sleep these days- my daughter was born seven weeks early.  'Course that is when things break at work.
> 
> Anyway I am trying to build a spiffy new print server using CUPS 1.1.23 and ESP Ghostscript 8.15.1.  Both have built without complaint for me - until I try to work with printers.
> 
> Our "mandate" is that all packages we build use /opt/local as their install root directory, so cups is in /opt/local/cups, and ESP Ghostscript is in /opt/local/gs.
> 
> ESP Ghostscript can display all the example files w/o a problem.
> 
> CUPS has been popping up the following error in the error_log when I tried to print test pages:
> 
> E [21/Feb/2006:17:40:07 -0500] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 9!
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:40:07 -0500] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
> 
> Well, I do, but not where CUPS may expect it.
> 
> So, my silly question which I have been unable to find the answer for is how/where do I tell CUPS where to find ESP Ghostscript (when it is installed in a non-standard location)?  My looking at forum archives and docs has not turned up an answer, but my blood-shot eyes may have missed what I am looking for.
> 
> Thanks
> Bob Martel

I think ESP Ghostscript is expected in /usr/local/bin in your case. If necessary, set up a
symbolic link.

Helge

PS: be patient. Once in a while, your daughter *will* sleep most of the night.
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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
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