Re: Cups problems

[Merritt Draney <tmdraney%verizon.net@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:13:31 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:50:42PM -0400, Merritt Draney wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:12:14 +0200
> > Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:05:31PM -0300, Emiliano Gavilan wrote:
> > > > pstoraster is in my ghostscript-esp-8.15.1nb9 package. I've run in this
> > > > same problem before since the ghostcript package installed as a 
> > > > dependency
> > > > is (or was) ghostcript-gnu. Installing ghostscript-esp should solve the
> > > > problem.
> > > 
> > > There's a cups option for ghostscript that is needed if you want to get
> > > the rasterizer.
> > > 
> > > Joerg
> > 
> > I have ghostscript-esp on my system already.  What would that cups
> > option be because it is not jumping out at me?  Thanks.
> 
> For print/ghostscript. Essentially, print/ghostscript with cups option
> is the successor of ghostscript-esp. I tried looking at providing the
> required part of cups in ghostscript directly, but the PPD parsing is
> #@$%#@%#$ in terms of dependencies.
> 
> Joerg

Got it to work finally.  Just installing ghostscript did not do it.  I had to 
uninstall cups, all of its dependencies and ghostscript.  Then I just installed 
ghostscript with the cups option (built cups automatically) and now it works.  
I am printing with the gutenprint51-lib driver.  Thank you for all your help.

 
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Merritt Draney <tmdraney%verizon.net@localhost>