On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Shagbag OpenBSD wrote:

> 2009/1/28 Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Eugene Ryazanov wrote:
> >
> > > Try to istall libgnomecups. AbiWord is a GNOME application.
> >
> > That has nothing to do with that. We don't even ship libgnomecups.
> >
> > Just print using 'Custom'.
> > -> lpr -Pfoobar
> >
> > where foobar is your CUPS printer name.
> >
> > --
> > Antoine
> >
> 
> I had to create the /var/spool/output/lpd directory as it didn't exist.
> I then had to chmod it to 777 as AbiWord complained about permissions.
> I have one printer on my home network.  It is called 'HPLJ018'.
> I tried lpr -PHPLJ1018 but I got the messages:
> 
> lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> I'm clueless as to what this means.
> I also tried lpt -Psocket://192.168.1.1:9100/printers/HPLJ1018 but that gave
> me the error message
> 
> lpr: socket://192.168.1.1:9100/printers/HPLJ1018: unknown printer
> 
> I really appreciate you guys helping me out.  Could you please tell me what
> I'm doing wrong?

Did you run the cups-enable script after installing the cups package?

-- 
Antoine

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