[nmglug] New CUPS server install, having issues need help.

BrianO'Keefe okeefe at cybermesa.com
Tue May 6 09:29:51 PDT 2008


I hope it all works for you-best of luck

Beau Bechdol wrote:
> I will give that a try. Thanks Brian. I am pretty comfortable with the
> command line, and I have compiled from source before. Hopefully I
> won't have any issues (knock on wood). :)
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:57 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>     How about downloading the source package
>     from:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537&package_id=273638&release_id=595643
>     <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537&package_id=273638&release_id=595643>
>     and building 5.2.0? I don't know if it will build for you but you
>     could
>     try it. Check out the README file in the package after you download it
>     for the instructions. If you haven't ever built a package from source
>     you'll need to learn the command line a bit as it requires using a
>     terminal shell. It's not very difficult but if you don't know what I'm
>     talking about you have some learning to do.
>     ;-)
>
>     Beau Bechdol wrote:
>     > I guess on this I will just keep trying. Ill let you all know If
>     I fix it.
>     >
>     > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Beau Bechdol <bbechdol at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bbechdol at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:bbechdol at gmail.com <mailto:bbechdol at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     I just setup CUPS on hardy and all went well. I installed CUPS
>     >     fine,The printer added fine, recognize fine and was showing up
>     >     fine. The issue that I have is that when I try to print anything
>     >     from any machine on my network all it prints is page after page
>     >     after page of white paper. No matter what setting i change
>     it wont
>     >     fix it. I did see that it is using the Gutenprint 5.0.2
>     driver. I
>     >     belive that this is a driver related issue. I did some
>     digging and
>     >     found that it seems that the 5.0.2 driver doent like Epson
>     >     printers. How can I update it to the latest or 5.1.7.
>     <http://5.1.7.>
>     >     <http://5.1.7.> Some one said that that seems to have fixed
>     it. I
>     >     just dont know how to update it or get new drivers.
>     >
>     >     Can someone help me please ?
>     >
>     >     Thanks in advance
>     >
>     >
>     >
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