On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote:
> I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is > not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this > system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to > MDK92.
Actually, I think that this would depend on whether you have a printer connected when you do the install. If you do and it is detected by Mandrake, then it installs CUPS by default unless you tell it not to. You don't have to have CUPS, you can use lpd or one of the other printer systems but you do have to have something.
> The MDK91 install was default, except I disabled gnome and Koffice. Then I > did the MDK92 upgrade. The above sequence is exactly what I described in > my first email. Everything is fine until I choose the printer name and > click OK. Instead of choosing the model, I get "Failed to configure > printer "Printer"".
My guess would be that you are missing some necessary packages from the Mandrake core system. If I were trying to troubleshoot this, I would urpmi the CUPS software and try to bypass the printer drake utils and set the printer up manually in CUPS. Hopefully, that should trigger the right files to be installed because of dependencies and then the wizard should work again.
In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load.
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