[cups.general] Error while accessing backend.

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Oct 27 10:57:20 PDT 2008


shermin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While trying to access the backend using /usr/lib/cups/backend/card:
> 
> Getting "error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> What could be the reason.I am using libusb based backend.

The dependency probably comes from libcupsimage; make sure you run
"ldconfig", and make sure you have all of the required libraries
(libtiff) installed on your Linux system.

Also, "ldd /usr/lib/cups/backend/card" is useful in showing the
missing libraries.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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