On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:36:35PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > On 05/10/15 19:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > >>On 05/10/15 18:48, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>>I made the /var/spool/lpd directory manually, since a search of Debian > >>>packages didn't find any package that includes it as part of its > >>>infrastructure. > >>I think you will find it is from the 'lpr' package > >Which I do not have installed. Nor lprng. Instead, I have cups-bsd. > >Each of them privides its own /usr/bin/lpr file. > > > >Online I'm told the way to specify my printer is to use the -S option on > >lpr and give it an IP number, but the man page for lpr does not have > >that option. Presumably cups-bsd, which is what I have installed, does > >not have that option. So presumably it's time to uninstall cups and all > >its relativees and relations and install lpr. > > > >Then see if this is the right /usr/bin/lpr. > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > It isn't and installing lpr will take a lot of cups off.
I installed lpr, and it did take a lot of cups off. Do I really need cups? But I still don't know how to specify my network printer. It does lookk as if some configuration will be required. And yes, I checked to specs online, and it does support the "LPR/LPD" network protocol in both IPv4 and IPv6. I'm using IPv4. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
