On 2009.12.17 19:31:40 +0000, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Rem P Roberti <[email protected]> [12-17-09 19:20]: > > On 2009.12.17 15:00:49 +0000, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > > > your system's requirements will be different as you do not use rpm. I > > > suspect you are on a debian derivative, synaptics *should* provide a list > > > of the required supporting packages. I don't know how you installed > > > muttprint, but I would have expected your system to have complained that > > > a required package was missing. > > > > > > let me know if I can help more. > > > > Well this is getting a bit more convoluted. I went and checked > > the dependencies list and there were indeed some that were missing. So I > > manually installed them. Now when I try to print I get the blue window > > telling me this: > > > > Line 759: Could not print with lpr -Plp > > No such file or directory > > > > I'm stumped > > Sounds like a lot of problems. Why are you "manually" installing > packages when you have apps specifically designed to handle the > dependency problems you are having? Good question. This is a FreeBSD box and I have never had to do this before. > What system are you on and how are you installing? > What dependencies were missing? divipsk-tetex and open-motif. There may have been one more.
> You may need to "reinstall" lp/cups (my lp* cmds are provided by > cups-client). > > what does "lpstat -a" yield? lpstat -a yields "Photosmart7760 accepting requests since Dec 11 12:21:13 2009" > Do you have cups installed? Cups is installed and working perfectly. The named printer is working perfectly, and was installed via CUPS. Rem
