Re: Printing with N900
 

I had been able to add network printers before the PR1.3 update, but after the update which requried reinstalling everything, I have not been able to add a printer.

I uninstalled thenreinstalled cups, then performed the other steps, but still cannot add a printer via localhost:631.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Re: Printing with N900
 

i had problems installing printers at first but i went through the
cups.conf file and set all permissions to allow all and allow,deny
and made sure all files were chmod to 777 and got it to work.
bear in mind I have BASH installed but not sure that's necessary.
5his all done on pr 1.3

hth

Re: Printing with N900
 

For network printers there is no need too install the cups package.
Just add a printer like I described a few posts before.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Are there any working suggestions to solve the installscript problem?
Otherwise we will never get cups out of the devel repo.
After the cups libraries are out of devel, gtk+ must be recompiled
with the cups libraries. Then other gtk+ applications can be build
with printer support.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I am trying to find time to get into that, been rather busy with work.

I just reread the thread and found I had missed out on your
work with leafpad and abiword, will give that a go shortly.

Looking at the cups situation,
am I assuming correctly that

Is where the work needs to be done?
I have a lot of other things I am involved in so the timeslice
on my efforts is somewhat irregular :D

I do want this fixed so I can run it natively on my main machine,
I only have it working on my testing unit at the moment,
because I hope to do a seamless install on the one I rely upon.

Re: Printing with N900
 

The problem of the missing links is in the postinst file of the
cups package.

db_get cupsys/backend && SELECTED=$RET

$RET seems to be always empty.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I got it!
The problem was, that fakedebconf provides debconf-2.0,
which does not work correctly with this postinstall-script.
The cups package now depends only on debconf, not debconf-2.0.
Now the backend-links are made.
I have uploaded new packages to the repo.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Do we still need bash installed?

Re: Printing with N900
 

I think, there is no need for bash.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Hmm, there was hidden dependency on it, one of postinst scripts starts with #!/bin/bash , glad to hear it is no longer the case