[cups.general] CUPS looking for "hpcups" in wrong directory

Timothy Cartwright timothy.cartwright at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 11:12:00 PDT 2009


I'm running openSuse 10.3 and it's a 64bit machine (x86_64). I'm not at
my machine at the moment, so I can't say for sure if all the CUPS
filters are in /usr/lib/cups or /usr/lib64/cups. I suspect they'll be in
the latter. I'll check when I get a chance.

On 08/25/2009 10:47 AM, Michael Sweet was rumored to have said:
> What OS/Linux distribution?
> 
> What does "uname -a" show?
> 
> The ServerBin directive can be used to override the default one used  
> by CUPS, however if all of the CUPS filters are in /usr/lib/cups/ 
> filter then you may need to move (or symlink) the hpcups filter so it  
> is in /usr/lib/cups/filter.
> 
> On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Timothy Cartwright wrote:
> 
>> The status for my printer shows this:
>>
>> Idle - "Filter "/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups" for printer "PSC_2200"
>> not available: No such file or directory"
>>
>> However, this file actually exists here: /usr/lib64/cups/filter/ 
>> hpcups.
>> Why is it looking in the wrong place? How can I correct this?
>>
>> Thanks
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> 
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