2009/1/29 Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>
> 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
>
No. That's fixed it. I can now print with 'lpr -PHPLJ1018'. Thanks. It's
a mystery to me, however, why AbiWord doesn't see my printer by default
while Firefox does.
