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

[Michael Sweet]

Oh, and you can always use the Path directive to add /usr/lib64/cups/ 
filter to the default path...

(just remembered that we *do* have that added... :)

On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Michael Sweet wrote:

> On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Timothy Cartwright wrote:
>> On 08/27/2009 11:03 AM, Michael Sweet was rumored to have said:
>>
>>> Do you have Ghostscript installed? There should be a pstoraster
>>> filter
>>> in /usr/lib/cups/filter...
>>
>> The file/filter pstoraster is in /usr/lib64 and not /usr/lib.
>>
>> This is the problem. For some reason, some files are in /usr/lib and
>> and
>> some are in /usr/lib64, however the tool is only looking in one
>> directory. So, from your hint above, I linked "pstoraster" in /usr/ 
>> lib
>> and now I can print.
>>
>> Would it be too hard to have it look in both directories?
>
> We get this request from time to time; in concept it isn't a huge deal
> (and would allow us to support /usr/local/lib/cups/filter, etc.), but
> if we implement this for all of the helper apps (backends, port
> monitors, notifiers, etc.) the changes get a lot larger.  Then there
> is the issue of precedence - if you have pstoraster in both /usr/lib/
> cups/filter and /usr/lib64/cups/filter, which one should we run?
>
> If you can come up with a proposal that clearly addresses those issues
> (or just have strong feelings that we should try to do something about
> it instead of getting the Linux distributors to agree on a single
> directory), feel free to file it on the bug page:
>
>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
> Probably the simplest fix would be to have the Linux distros provide a
> symlink from /usr/lib64/cups to /usr/lib/cups so that third-party (or
> distro-provided) packages install everything in one place.
>
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