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You can use Foomatic-RIP for single user printer management without any spool. http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPri...erDocumentation Many Linux experts gave up on cups problems and bugs: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html http://hex.hates-software.com/2004/04/16/31dc4c50.html There is a "libusb" related bugs on certain version of cups. After 2 weeks battle, the cups works: 1. Use Cups, Ghostscript, foomatic, hplip (for HP printers) source code from Mandriva 2007.1 in SRPMS sub-directory. Re-compile using "rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps". If the rpmbuild failed, change directory to "/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/cups*", run make and make install. Run "gsc -h" command and make sure the printer driver for your printer is included in the output. 2. Make sure the required ghostscript fonts are available for foomatic, before rebuilding it. Search for all type1 and ttf font, copy to "/usr/X11R6......fonts/Type1" and "/usr/X11R6/........fonts/TTF". Run type1inst and ttfontmap. Copy the fontmap to "/usr/share/ghostscript/........./Fontmap.GS". http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~el...t_h...HOWTO/x338.html Make sure GS_LIB environment variable point to the directory. Set the environment variable on /root/.bashrc or ".bashrc" file your root directory. GS_LIB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF GS_LIB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1:$GS_LIB export GS_LIB Exit/log out from root account and login again. To test environment variable: set | grep -i "gs\_lib" 3. Modify "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" to get the error. New values: LogLevel debug Listen 127.0.0.1:631 Below each "order <deny, allow>" lines and below each "order <allow, deny>" lines, you must insert the following line: allow 127.0.0.1 On my "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" there are 7 "order..........." lines You can check the debug / error messages at "/var/log/cups/error_log". You can reset the log by using the following command: "rm -rfv /var/log/cups/*". After this command restart cups daemon: "service cups stop" "service cups start" 4. I face the following printing problem: "unsupported format "text/plain" and "application/postscript". The solution: Modify /etc/cups/mime.convs: remove the comment sign (the character '#') application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raster 100 pstoraster application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/cupsys/+bug/36532 5. Create user and group: lp, lpadmin (using adduser command). 6. Change access mode of "/dev/lp0" chmod a+w /dev/lp0 7. If you got "cannot set ACLs command not supported" problem on "/var/log/cups/error_log", you must install ACL packages. http://acl.bestbits.at/download.html Make sure you had compiled kernel with ACL option on "file system" kernel options (from "/usr/src/linux-...../.config") CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ACL=y CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL=y CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL=y CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=y If you use "module" option, perhaps you can use "=m" instead of "=y". Modify "/etc/fstab". Add ",acl" after "defaults" on "/etc/fstab" entry. Example for root partition (/) on "/dev/hda1": /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,acl 1 1 Rebot after modifying and saving "/etc/fstab". How to test acl: touch /test setfacl -m u:root:rwx /test 8. If you face "quota limit" problem, delete the printer on CUPS menu, reboot and re-install new printer driver from scratch.

Thank you for the reply. I had cleaned all foomatic, cups, ghostscript, hplip, hpijs and other printer related RPM. I had installed from the latest source code: cups, foomatic, ghostscript. Cups with --enable-debug, but there is no cups.log or cups_log. There are 3 files on /var/log/cups: access_log, error_log and page_log. Page_log containing information about 1 test page. The last 5 lines from access_log: "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 413 CUPS-Get-Classes successful-ok "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 77 CUPS-Get-Default successful-ok "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 411 CUPS-Get-Printers successful-ok "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 154 Get-Jobs successful-ok "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 179 CUPS-Get-Printers successful-ok From error_log: Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4) Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain) Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp... Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"... Configured for up to 100 clients. Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. Using policy "default" as the default! Full reload is required. Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 35 types, 37 filters... Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"... Full reload complete. Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3... Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 4... Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 2... Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 4... Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4) Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain) Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp... Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"... Configured for up to 100 clients. Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. Using policy "default" as the default! Full reload is required. Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"... Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 35 types, 37 filters... Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"... Full reload complete. Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 2... Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 4... Adding start banner page "none" to job 10. Adding end banner page "none" to job 10. Job 10 queued on "HPDeskjet1" by "root". Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 15584) for job 10.

I use ordinary mouse with "gpm" daemon. I can access cups using the following command: lynx http://localhost:631 Unfortunately after clicking on "printing test page" / press enter, nothing happen. I try with X-Windows, but after "sending test page" to printer nothing happen, only question: "Is the test page OK?" (Yes/No). Is there any step by step debugging of various program / process inside/called by cups? I want to see all the process /error in sending testpage.ps to printer port? > URPMI problem. How to set up urpmi/fix this problem? I found an alternative for single user (LPR script) for PS and PDF. For text file you can send directly to "/dev/lp0" using "cat" command. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/down...s/files/pfs.txt For printing graphic, change gif/jpeg/png/bmp to ps (Postscript) using GIMP.

Hi I use Mandriva 2006 text mode and I had installed all CUPS, foomatic, hplip, printerdrake packages, but printerdrake said: "unable to install cups". I can configure the printer, but when I click "send test page", nothing happens. I can print a text file using the command: cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 My printer is HP deskjet 840C. 1. Is there any other alternatives beside cups, foomatic or printerdrake? 2. Is there any step-by-step diagnostic / debugging of printerdrake / cups? Thank you.

I try to run printconf (foomatic-gui) command instead of cups, because cups does not work. The program need "/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d". According to internet, the program is a part of "SysVInit" package. I had re-installed sysvinit rpm package from Mandriva 2006.0, but there is no such file on sysvinit rpm package. How to get this file for Mandriva? Where is the source code? Thank you.

> Should not change "./configure" scripts. On line 26440 and 26442: PYTHON_PREFIX='${prefix}' PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX='${prefix}' If I use "./configure --prefix=/usr" the substitution WILL NOT WORK. If I change the 2 lines to: PYTHON_PREFIX=${prefix} PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX=${prefix} The substitution work, but "make install" FAILED because of problems with directory names. I try to change "${prefix}" to "%{prefix}, but it DOES NOT WORK. Any idea why the substitution did not work inside '' (quote) signs? I use Bash-3.2 compiled from source code. Thank you.

Hi I found that the latest avahi need dbus version 1.0.../later. 1. How to solve {prefix} problem: Apparently "./configure" scripts cannot substitute "{prefix}" with "/usr", even when you use "--prefix=/usr" parameter. The solution: Open "./configure" scripts with text editor. Replace ${prefix} with /usr Replace ${exec_prefix} with /usr Replace ${datarootdir} with /usr/share Replace ${localstatedir} with /var Replace ${sharedstatedir} with /com (or /usr/com). Replace ${docdir} with /usr/doc 2. How to solve "cannot find python module gtk" or "python module dbus": Run the following command on console/command line for finding the problems: python enter the following command: import sys import gtk Press "Ctrl-D" to leave python. or import sys import dbus Press "Ctrl-D" to leave python. Fix all the errors by upgrading related software. Example: cairo, pycairo, python, python-pyxml, libexpat etc.

I try to use the latest version of Wine Windows Emulator with Mandriva 2006.0. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=80066 Unfortunately the software need Glibc with NPTL / TLS. How to upgrade GLibc with NPTL/TLS without compiling Glibc? Is there any Glibc binary replacement package with NPTL/TLS? Thank you. Error message: wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination. It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.

Hi I want to install Avahi daemon for Mandriva 2006.0 using binary or source code. http://www.avahi.org 1. Binary: from MDE.DJURA.ORG: failed to start avahi daemon. 2. Source: Configure script failed to detect python site-packages directory: "{Prefix}/lib/python......./site-packages" and "{Exec_Prefix}/lib/python......./site-packages. It should be: "/usr/lib/python......../site-packages". The script also failed to detect "Python module GTK". I had compiled pyGTK-2.8.6 for GTK-2.8 from source code. The pyGTK is installed at: "/usr/lib/python....../site-packages/gtk-2.0". There is also "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/pygtk-2.0.pc" file with correct "prefix" entry (ie "/usr" ) Using "--disable-python" the script works, but after compile and install: "failed to start avahi daemon" Is there any read to run avahi daemon binary packages for Mandriva? How to install avahi-daemon? Thank you.

Hi I had Mandrake 10.0 since 2004. There is a new open source multimedia program incompatible with GCC-3.3.2 (MDK 10) but compatible with GCC-3.4.3 (MDK 10.2). Some programs also need new GLIBC-2.3.4 from MDK 10.2. Is it possible to upgrade GCC, Glibc, Binutils directly by installing binary RPMs (i586.rpm) from Mandrake 10.2 CD without re-compiling from source code? Is there any step-by-step instruction/guide for this process? Thank you. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]