Re: Printing on NetBSD: Converting xml to ppd

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:59:01PM +0200, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> Hello Mayuresh,
> 
> Mayuresh writes:
> > [...]
> > I find that any foomatic-ppd command results in the following error:
> >
> > # foomatic-ppdfile list
> > [1]   Abort trap (core dumped) /usr/pkg/bin/foo... |
> >       Done(1)                 /usr/pkg/bin/foo...
> > Could not run "foomatic-combo-xml"/"foomatic-perl-data"!
> >
> >
> > Is above the right way to get a ppd? Does above error appear to be some
> > system configuration problem?
> > [...]
> 
> No, I think it wasn't a system configuration problem. The actual
> problem probably was something like that (in `/var/log/messages'):

Thanks. I ended up taking a deb file from
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-L210_Series and extracted
ppd from it using "ar x".

Mayuresh