I recall a long and spirited discussiio here a while ago about how easy and simple it is to do printing, and that CUPS is a bloated incomprehensible system that just makes it all complicated, I decided test this by setting up my devuan system to talk to my networked printer. With or without CUPS.
I've discovered I'm completely clueless on the matter. There must be something simple I'm missing. CUPS appears to have been installed when I installed devuan from alpha 2. CUPS doesn't appear to have a Brother HL-3170CDW on it list. Obtaining a driver from Brother's support site as a .deb file, I tried to install it with dpkg: root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package hl3170cdwlpr. (Reading database ... 118096 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb ... Unpacking hl3170cdwlpr (1.1.2-1) ... Setting up hl3170cdwlpr (1.1.2-1) ... mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory chown: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory chgrp: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory chmod: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# Something appears still to be missing. Where is this /var/spool/lpd/ supposed to have come from. Should I just create it and hope? I decided to ask before I screwed everything up. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
