On 04/15/2014 07:42 AM, Stroller wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 April 2014, at 2:06 am, Dutch Ingraham <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> … The error message I'm getting at the make install
>> command is:
>>
>> "Error - foomatic-rip is not installed!
>> Install foomatic packages for your OS
>> make [install test] Error 1"
>>
>> …
>> To stay out of TL;DR territory, a short list of what I have checked so far:
>>
>> - re-installed cups, cups-filters, foomatic-db, and foomatic-db-engine,
>> with the same use flags on both working and non-working installs;
>>
>> - removed the foo2zjs package and re-downloaded and compiled from scratch;
>
>
> I assume that one of these foo* packages supplies the foomatic-rip command,
> and that you can run foomatic-rip manually?
>
> A quick grep of /usr/portage/net-print/ suggests the foomatic-filters package
> may be the one, but I wouldn't swear to it.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
Thanks, Stroller.
I should have included this in my first post: "locate foomatic-rip"
returns, on both installations:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.bz2
I cannot run foomatic-rip manually.
I haven't been able to determine exactly what package supplies
foomatic-rip, but the man page states:
"foomatic-rip is a universal print filter which can be used as CUPS
filter or stand-alone for spooler-less, direct printing. It has the
following features:
It translates PostScript and PDF from standard input or a file to
the printer's native language on standard output.
The translation is done with an external renderer, usually
Ghostscript (gs(1)). If no translation is needed (PostScript printer)
the renderer's command line reduces to cat(1). The way how this
translation is done is described in a PPD file.
Printer capabilities, how to handle user options, and how
to build the renderer command line is always described by PPD files,
these PPD files usually come from Foomatic or can be the ones supplied
by the manufacturers of PostScript printers. The PPD files are the same
for both CUPS and direct printing.
foomatic-rip works with CUPS (and for direct printing without
spooler). The mode is selected by the command line options and
environment variables which are supplied to foomatic-rip.
foomatic-rip does not only apply option settings supplied by the
user through the command line of the printing command, but also
searches the entire job for embedded option settings (only PostScript
jobs). Here not only settings which affect the whole job are taken into
account, but also settings in the page headers, which are only valid
for the page where they were found, so applications which produce
PostScript code with page-specific printer option settings are fully
supported."
Thanks for your help. Ideas anyone?
