Thanks dsl,
did it but also lpr didn't work, no print anymore.
Serached 2 day's to found out the pb :
a simply right on /var/spool/lpd/lp !!
There was indeed only access to this dir for root.
So, no printool nor printerdrake solved the pb.
All prints well now with lpr.
Eric MC
On Sunday 11 March 2001 13:59, you wrote:
| On Fri 9 Mar 2001, Eric MC D wrote:
| >How can we get out every trace of Cups ??
|
| I just did this. Cups has been a real roller coaster ride for me: I
| couldn't get it to work at all, then it worked great for a while. Then I
| had to re-install Mandrake (for other reasons) and lost CUPS completely. I
| think that if it works for you "out of the box" then you are very
| fortunate: a working cups is indeed superior to lpr. If it doesn't work
| "out of the box", then one seems to have to grapple with a system that is
| at least as complex as, say, sendmail. That, I don't think, is a good
| thing. ; it's neither practical, nor desirable. No offence, Till, but
| that's the way it seems man.
|
| Here's how to remove CUPS and re-install the legacy lpr:
|
| 1- As root, erase all the cups rpms and associated programs. This will
| depend on how updated your cups system is. I did the following, all on
| one line:
| # rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-10.1mdk cups-devel-1.1.6-10.1mdk
| cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk kups-0.8-24mdk qtcups-1.0-14mdk
|
| (note that wildcards do not work with "rpm -e" ... if you try, rpm will
| tell you it's not installed ... you have to be explicit, and you must
| leave out the ".586.rpm")
|
| If that didn't work for you, then try removing the packages individually
| .. i.e.,:
| # rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-10.1mdk
| # rpm -e --nodeps cups-devel-1.1.6-10.1mdk
| # rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk
| # rpm -e --nodeps kups-0.8-24mdk
| # rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-1.0-14mdk
|
| Now you can install the legacy lpr stuff. From the LM7.2 disks, install:
|
| lpr-0.50-7mdk.i586.rpm
| and
| rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm
|
| At this point I was still a bit stuck .... Mandrake's Drakprint (or
| whatever it's called) was useless, and I really haven't developed any
| confidence in Mandrake's automated tools yet. But having had some
| experience with RedHat, I simply installed "printtool" from my RedHat 6.2
| CD's (I didn't find it on the Mandrake CD's). The rpm is:
|
| printtool-3.44-1.noarch.rpm
|
| This rpm installs no problem in LM 7.2 and you can find it anywhere.
| The only step left is to invoke "printtool" from the command line, do the
| simple configuration, and you'll be able to print from virtually any
| Linux application thereafter.
|
| dsl
|
| ---------
| 11-Mar-2001
| 07:59:57
| ---------
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