[cups.general] lpr printing problem

[Peter Flynn]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 18:19 , Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
>> Kimmo Hedman wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> any ideas for my printing problems? I'm running debian etch 2.6.18-3
>>> with cupsys 1.2.7-2 pkg, all other printing works ok (firefox,Kate,test
>>> page from cups, etc.) but not from command line lpr (e.g. adobe reader
>>> uses that).
>>
>> I got this too: lp/lpr looks in the /etc/printcap and wants to use the
>> first name it finds for each entry. If that's a long name with spaces,
>> like CUPS lets you use, it dies.
> 
> Wouldn't the correct answer here be to install cupsys-bsd in place of 
> whatever lpr you're currently using?

cupsys-bsd is already installed, presumably by Edgy by default, so if 
that's the lpr it provides, that's what I'm using.

///Peter