this is foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc3, a prerelease of the upcoming stable release 3.0.1.
This is only a correction for a bug in foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc2. 3.0.1rc2 does not build due to a bug in the "configure" script, so you should not use it but use 3.0.1rc3 instead. The current version of foomatic-db-engine is still 3.0.1rc2.
Thanks to Satoshi Machino for reporting this.
Give your comments and suggestions for the further development on the Foomatic Development List/Newsgroup on linuxprinting.org.
See details and how to proceed below.
Happy printing!
Till
Changes -------
Compared to Foomatic 3.0.1rc1
- Script to update the "gimp-print" driver entry in the database using the src/foomatic/foomatic-printermap file of the source tarball of GIMP-Print 4.2.x.
- perltoxml() Perl function in DB.pm to generate XML database entries from PPD files (thanks to Tim Waugh from Red Hat).
- Compatibility fixes for the *BSD operating systems and systems without bash (Bourne-again shell).
Compared to foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc2
- Bug fix in "configure" script which prevented 3.0.1rc2 from building.
Packages --------
The release consists of two packages:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-3.0.1rc3.tar.gz http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-db-engine-3.0.1rc2.tar.gz
NOTE: rc2 for foomatic-db-engine, rc3 for foomatic-filters
It is recommended to also update foomatic-db and foomatic-db-hpijs from the CVS or from http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/ (daily snapshots). As the database is regularly updated for new printers and drivers, there are no special releases for it, please use the last daily snapshot for distributions (the date can be considered as version number). foomatic-db-hpijs releases are coupled with releases of HPIJS (http://hpinkjet.sf.net/).
The packages should be installed in the following order:
1. foomatic-filters 2. foomatic-db 3. foomatic-db-hpijs 4. foomatic-db-engine
Please read the USAGE files to know how to install and use these packages. You do not necessarily need to install foomatic-db-hpijs, you only need it when you want to use a printer with the HPIJS driver.
Uninstall any old version of Foomatic before you install these packages.
To set up print queues for any supported spooler (CUPS, LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr, PPR, PDQ, CPS, no spooler) use "foomatic-configure" as described in the USAGE file of foomatic-db-engine. You can set up printer queues based on the Foomatic database, with PPD files for PostScript printers, with CUPS raster drivers, or raw queues. This is possible for all spoolers. You can also print a wide range of file types with every spooler (when you use LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr, PDQ, CPS, or no spooler you need "a2ps" on your machine).
If you want to know how all this works, see the README files of both the foomatic-db-engine and foomatic-filters packages.
Web site --------
Alternatively you can download all what you need for setting up a print queue from the web. Go simply to the usual site:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address
If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
