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

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Aug 27 11:03:49 PDT 2009


On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Timothy Cartwright wrote:
> Those two files were in "/usr/lib/cups/filter". But why are they there
> instead of "/usr/lib64/cups/filter"? It is a 64 bit machine. Or does  
> it
> matter?

Like I said, some Linux distributions put 64-bit stuff in /usr/lib  
(Debian-based ones primarily) while others put it in /usr/lib64 (Red  
Hat, SuSE, etc.)

> Anyway, so i went ahead and created links to hpcups and hpcupsfax in
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter" and restarted cups. The filter problem goes  
> away,
> but I still can't print. Here's the output from the error_log file  
> when
> I try to print a testpage"

Do you have Ghostscript installed? There should be a pstoraster filter  
in /usr/lib/cups/filter...

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