On 3 May 2010 22:19, <[email protected]> wrote: >> * PyCups <http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/pycups/> >> PyCups was not found. It is needed by printer-applet to run. >> (Use -DINSTALL_PRINTER_APPLET=TRUE to install anyway) >> * system-config-printer >> <http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/system-config-printer/> >> system-config-printer was not found. Some of its modules >> (cupshelpers.py and ppds.py) are optionally used by printer-applet for >> auto configure of new printers. You should also install the udev > rules >> from system-config-printer. >>
> Many thanks for your help and any one elses. I was unable to solve > this problem on my machine. It has been this way since KDE 4.3 I > believe. Anyway there's always > Turboprint, it's rather good actually. > > thanks > > MAc > The one time I tried to install system-config-printer (before I decided to abandon kde4 as too much pain), I remember that its dependencies were less than obvious (that is, I found the necessities to install it, but at runtime things were still missing. That's often a problem with Python, and to a much lesser extent, with perl, packages. But without it, all you seem to be missing is "auto configure of new printers". Cups via its web interface is usually easy enough, no ? ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
