Mathieu wrote: > when i select the driver (foomatic+gutenprint), it tells me that > "I have not the permission to do that or the driver doesn't > exist". The "gutenprint" driver in package foomatic-db is a pseudo-driver only used for listing the supported printer models on the linuxprinting.org website. It is impossible to generate PPDs from it since it has no ghostscript command line. Running sudo foomatic-cleanupdriver cleans up all these pseudo-drivers and should fix this. According to me Ubuntu should not include these pseudo drivers into the foomatic-db package and run foomatic-cleanupdriver before packaging.
Gutenprint provides both CUPS rasterto binary driver+PPDs and gutenprint-ijs.5.0 binary driver+Foomatic PPDs for the printers it supports. Since Ubuntu uses the CUPS spooler their is no need for the gutenprint-ijs.5.0 binary driver+Foomatic PPDs, there are only usefull for use with other printer spoolers like lprng. The packages foomatic- db-gutenprint and gutenprint-ijs.5.0 should not be installed by default on Ubuntu. > Use of "foomatic-configure" (command : foomatic-configure -s > cups -c file:/dev/usblp0 -d gutenprint-ijs.5.0 -p > Epson-Stylus_CX5000 --ppd > /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0/en/stp-escp2-cx5400.5.0.ppd.gz > -n epson) : It makes no sense to match the gutenprint-ijs.5.0 foomatic driver with a cups only PPD. Although it doesn't do any harm, if you specify a PPD with foomatic-configure the driver will be ignored. The above command works for me on my up to date Dapper without giving errors. > It tells me that : > ERROR: > "Global symbol "$printer" requires explicit package name at > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Foomatic/DB.pm line 1245. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line > 15. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line 15." > So I guess that the problem come from "foomatic" package (I > don't which exactly), and thus configuration of such printer in > any tool we could use ! It looks like the foomatic packages installed on your system are broken, please tell us which foomatic packages you have installed by using the foomaticbuginfo script that can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript. > There were lot of update during these last weeks for cuspsys > and foomatic, > but nothing at all that solves the problem. > In any case I only know that before my printer worked very > very well, and after an update no. You could have used lpadmin or the CUPS web interface (since 1.2.2) to set up your printer without problems. ** Changed in: foomatic-db-engine (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Needs Info -- Error to configure printer driver with "foomatic-configure" https://launchpad.net/bugs/44003 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
