Re: lpr command not found
On 03 Feb 2012, Russell L. Harris wrote: There is a bit more to this matter than the package lpr. About a decade ago, the package lprng (ng meaning next generation) fixed most of the problems of the package lpr. Most importantly, the author of lprng carefully documented the procedure for configuring the printing system. And though lprng was carefully wrought and worked well, lprng nonetheless was an elaborate patch of a legacy printing system. In those days, getting printing configured properly was a somewhat complex post-installation process. Then cups was designed, and getting printing working properly in Linux suddenly was a fairly simple matter. Things went well until cups was purchased by Apple, since which event there have been some improvements in printing configuration and management and some regressions. And I miss the marvelous detailed cups test page, which Apple replaced with a primitive and ugly version. Today, lpr simply is one of the commands which cups recognizes; that is, cups controls the printer, and lpr is an element of the command set of cups. For example, I print a man page on the default laser printer with the command string man -t packagename | lpr. And I print address labels on a dot-matrix printer with the command string lpr -Poki labels. RLH Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some problems with cups last summer (had to take the USB lead out and put it back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to change unless I have to. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203104920.gb7...@ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
Re: lpr command not found
* Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk [120203 11:21]: Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some problems with cups last summer (had to take the USB lead out and put it back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to change unless I have to. I came to Linux as a result of a disaster caused by one of the few genuine Y2K bugs, which caused M$ Word for M$-DO$ to write garbage to the data files. That event taught me the potential cost of running a proprietary system, and, in particular, a system in which data is stored in anything other than plain text. At that relatively-early date in the history of Linux (my first system was Potato), I was very glad to have lprng. I never recall having difficulty with lprng, and I was apprehensive about the switch to cups. Indeed, upon the acquisition of cups by Apple, and in view of my personal experience with several Macinto$h systems, I gave thought to returning to lprng. But as lprng loses popularity, maintenance becomes an issue. At this point, I think that if Apple ruins cups, the best approach to recovery would be to branch cups from the pre-Apple release, rather than to return to lprng. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203115638.GB4076@cromwell.tmiaf
Re: lpr command not found
On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the best one. With remote print servers, recent CUPS versions (as those in Debian/unstable) are unfortunately broken. -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.net/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203115716.ga5...@xvii.vinc17.org
Re: lpr command not found
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the best one. With remote print servers, recent CUPS versions (as those in Debian/unstable) are unfortunately broken. Through this discussion I found out that lpr works in my system. Only: I have to specify the printer with the option -P. As I have only one printer I would like to set this as system default. Where can I do that? Thanks. -- KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2bd79a.7040...@t-online.de
Re: lpr command not found
On Friday 03,February,2012 06:49 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 03 Feb 2012, Russell L. Harris wrote: There is a bit more to this matter than the package lpr. About a decade ago, the package lprng (ng meaning next generation) fixed most of the problems of the package lpr. Most importantly, the author of lprng carefully documented the procedure for configuring the printing system. And though lprng was carefully wrought and worked well, lprng nonetheless was an elaborate patch of a legacy printing system. In those days, getting printing configured properly was a somewhat complex post-installation process. Then cups was designed, and getting printing working properly in Linux suddenly was a fairly simple matter. Things went well until cups was purchased by Apple, since which event there have been some improvements in printing configuration and management and some regressions. And I miss the marvelous detailed cups test page, which Apple replaced with a primitive and ugly version. Today, lpr simply is one of the commands which cups recognizes; that is, cups controls the printer, and lpr is an element of the command set of cups. For example, I print a man page on the default laser printer with the command string man -t packagename | lpr. And I print address labels on a dot-matrix printer with the command string lpr -Poki labels. RLH Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some problems with cups last summer (had to take the USB lead out and put it back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less Why I have never thought of bring my laptop to the printer nearby and plug the cable to use it. Thanks for reminding me this. all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to change unless I have to. AC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2bda8d.2080...@gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
On Friday 03,February,2012 09:01 PM, lina wrote: On Friday 03,February,2012 06:49 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 03 Feb 2012, Russell L. Harris wrote: There is a bit more to this matter than the package lpr. About a decade ago, the package lprng (ng meaning next generation) fixed most of the problems of the package lpr. Most importantly, the author of lprng carefully documented the procedure for configuring the printing system. And though lprng was carefully wrought and worked well, lprng nonetheless was an elaborate patch of a legacy printing system. In those days, getting printing configured properly was a somewhat complex post-installation process. Then cups was designed, and getting printing working properly in Linux suddenly was a fairly simple matter. Things went well until cups was purchased by Apple, since which event there have been some improvements in printing configuration and management and some regressions. And I miss the marvelous detailed cups test page, which Apple replaced with a primitive and ugly version. Today, lpr simply is one of the commands which cups recognizes; that is, cups controls the printer, and lpr is an element of the command set of cups. For example, I print a man page on the default laser printer with the command string man -t packagename | lpr. And I print address labels on a dot-matrix printer with the command string lpr -Poki labels. RLH Interesting: I didn't know about the purchase by Apple. I always preferred lprng to cups but for some reason one of my laptops no longer gave me /dev/lp0 so I was forced to use cups on that machine. I had some problems with cups last summer (had to take the USB lead out and put it back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less Why I have never thought of bring my laptop to the printer nearby and plug the cable to use it. Thanks for reminding me this. Happy so earlier, there is no output cable except one for power, one for internet. all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to change unless I have to. AC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2bdd7c.10...@gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
On 03/02/12 12:48, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the best one. With remote print servers, recent CUPS versions (as those in Debian/unstable) are unfortunately broken. Through this discussion I found out that lpr works in my system. Only: I have to specify the printer with the option -P. As I have only one printer I would like to set this as system default. Where can I do that? Thanks. You can set the default printer to use for print jobs with: lpadmin -d $printername -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2be323.3020...@rpdom.net
Re: lpr command not found
Dom wrote: On 03/02/12 12:48, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the best one. With remote print servers, recent CUPS versions (as those in Debian/unstable) are unfortunately broken. Through this discussion I found out that lpr works in my system. Only: I have to specify the printer with the option -P. As I have only one printer I would like to set this as system default. Where can I do that? Thanks. You can set the default printer to use for print jobs with: lpadmin -d $printername Thanks, that did it. -- KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2c1a20.5030...@t-online.de
Re: lpr command not found
On 02/01/2012 11:39 PM, lina wrote: Thanks, Before I thought it's some hidden command in some package, did not realize I should use aptitude show or dpkg -S or apt-cache search. (actually I was not addicted to use those ways, I used to go to debian webpage and looking for package.) well, I have a derived problem, after installing lpr, $ lpr ProbSet_2.pdf lpr: lp: unknown printer $ lpstat HP-LaserJet-P4015-225 lina156672 Thursday 02,February,2012 11:35:38 AM SGT lp ProbSet_2.pdf request id is HP-LaserJet-P4015-226 (1 file(s)) I don't know what's going on. thanks, On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM,kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Hi, which package contains the lpr command for printing. Thanks, I seem to recall from one of your posts that you are using cups. If you installed the cups-bsd package, then lpr is already installed. The lpr package conflicts with the cups-bsd package $apt-cache show cups-bsd Package: cups-bsd Source: cups Version: 1.5.0-16 Installed-Size: 154 Maintainer: Debian CUPS Maintainers pkg-cups-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Architecture: amd64 Replaces: lpr Provides: lpr Depends: libc6 (= 2.4), libcups2 (= 1.4.0), debconf (= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, cups-client (= 1.5.0-16), update-inetd, cups-common Suggests: cups Conflicts: lpr, lprng Description-en: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpr, lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types. . This package provides the BSD commands for interacting with CUPS. It is provided separately to allow CUPS to coexist with other printing systems (to a small degree). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2aabca.60...@gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com writes: well, I have a derived problem, after installing lpr, $ lpr ProbSet_2.pdf lpr: lp: unknown printer $ lpstat HP-LaserJet-P4015-225 lina156672 Thursday 02,February,2012 11:35:38 AM SGT lp ProbSet_2.pdf request id is HP-LaserJet-P4015-226 (1 file(s)) What happens when you try 'lpr -PHP-LaserJet-P4015-225 ProbeSet_2.pdf'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkd1106v@songoku.yagibdah.de
Re: lpr command not found
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:53 AM, lee l...@songoku.yagibdah.de wrote: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com writes: well, I have a derived problem, after installing lpr, $ lpr ProbSet_2.pdf lpr: lp: unknown printer $ lpstat HP-LaserJet-P4015-225 lina 156672 Thursday 02,February,2012 11:35:38 AM SGT lp ProbSet_2.pdf request id is HP-LaserJet-P4015-226 (1 file(s)) What happens when you try 'lpr -PHP-LaserJet-P4015-225 ProbeSet_2.pdf'? $ lpr -PHP-LaserJet-P4015 ProbSet_2.pdf it showed me nothing, In cups the job does not show. thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkd1106v@songoku.yagibdah.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cag9cjmm9ffuaue7vxw8_3w7bhbqaammmedup3qh0orehwmd...@mail.gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
* Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com [120203 05:40]: Stan Hoeppner wrote: For whatever reason the folks around here seem to prefer lprng over lpr. And of course the lpr command is also provided by cups-bsd / cups. So there seem to be three flavors available. There is a bit more to this matter than the package lpr. About a decade ago, the package lprng (ng meaning next generation) fixed most of the problems of the package lpr. Most importantly, the author of lprng carefully documented the procedure for configuring the printing system. And though lprng was carefully wrought and worked well, lprng nonetheless was an elaborate patch of a legacy printing system. In those days, getting printing configured properly was a somewhat complex post-installation process. Then cups was designed, and getting printing working properly in Linux suddenly was a fairly simple matter. Things went well until cups was purchased by Apple, since which event there have been some improvements in printing configuration and management and some regressions. And I miss the marvelous detailed cups test page, which Apple replaced with a primitive and ugly version. Today, lpr simply is one of the commands which cups recognizes; that is, cups controls the printer, and lpr is an element of the command set of cups. For example, I print a man page on the default laser printer with the command string man -t packagename | lpr. And I print address labels on a dot-matrix printer with the command string lpr -Poki labels. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203061819.GA4076@cromwell.tmiaf
lpr command not found
Hi, which package contains the lpr command for printing. Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJmm3FajWtM=qm1agsvgvya7tpsjrx30-_ztdhseuot-...@mail.gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
On 2/1/2012 9:43 PM, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. Surprisingly... lpr $ aptitude show lpr Package: lpr State: not installed Version: 1:2008.05.17 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Adam Majer ad...@zombino.com Uncompressed Size: 410 k Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-1), netbase Suggests: magicfilter | apsfilter, gs Conflicts: suidmanager ( 0.50) Replaces: logcheck-database Provided by: cups-bsd, lprng Description: BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system This is the BSD printer spooler and associated utilities. You can use this for local and remote printers. If you install magicfilter or apsfilter (along with ghostscript), lpr will be able to automatically handle special file types (such as Postscript and PDF files). -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2a09fd.4030...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: lpr command not found
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 2/1/2012 9:43 PM, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. Surprisingly... lpr aha ... thanks, $ aptitude show lpr Package: lpr State: not installed Version: 1:2008.05.17 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Adam Majer ad...@zombino.com Uncompressed Size: 410 k Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-1), netbase Suggests: magicfilter | apsfilter, gs Conflicts: suidmanager ( 0.50) Replaces: logcheck-database Provided by: cups-bsd, lprng Description: BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system This is the BSD printer spooler and associated utilities. You can use this for local and remote printers. If you install magicfilter or apsfilter (along with ghostscript), lpr will be able to automatically handle special file types (such as Postscript and PDF files). -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2a09fd.4030...@hardwarefreak.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJmnD=4ydbvm66in55qnbklazm_-fpnfhkdoubs3mq+_...@mail.gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
Thanks, Before I thought it's some hidden command in some package, did not realize I should use aptitude show or dpkg -S or apt-cache search. (actually I was not addicted to use those ways, I used to go to debian webpage and looking for package.) well, I have a derived problem, after installing lpr, $ lpr ProbSet_2.pdf lpr: lp: unknown printer $ lpstat HP-LaserJet-P4015-225 lina156672 Thursday 02,February,2012 11:35:38 AM SGT lp ProbSet_2.pdf request id is HP-LaserJet-P4015-226 (1 file(s)) I don't know what's going on. thanks, On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Hi, which package contains the lpr command for printing. Thanks, lpr is the name of the package. If a progam is installed, you can use: dpkg -S program_name to find the package name. If it is not installed you can use: apt-cache search program_name Depending on your setup you may want to look up lp as well. Keith Ostertag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cag9cjmmi63af5oaqjfkgsvw4xhahbuhusan4af4urgn_aun...@mail.gmail.com
Re: lpr command not found
Hi, which package contains the lpr command for printing. Thanks, lpr is the name of the package. If a progam is installed, you can use: dpkg -S program_name to find the package name. If it is not installed you can use: apt-cache search program_name Depending on your setup you may want to look up lp as well. Keith Ostertag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/829cdb8e4025f7199d72e1a4ddfa4ce6.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
Re: lpr command not found
Stan Hoeppner wrote: lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. Surprisingly... lpr Provided by: cups-bsd, lprng Description: BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system For whatever reason the folks around here seem to prefer lprng over lpr. And of course the lpr command is also provided by cups-bsd / cups. So there seem to be three flavors available. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
