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

Re: Printing with N900
 

Try it without bash.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I have uploaded new packages. Please test and vote for the cups package!

Re: Printing with N900
 

Is it in extras-testing?
Does it include a new .conf file?
Is it cups or cups-client?

Re: Printing with N900
 

No, it is not in testing. In most cases there is no need for the package
cups. cups-client will be enough. You can add a printer with the lpadmin
comman. If you want the whole cups server incl. webinterface, you have to
install cups.
I will also repackage cups-pdf.
Is there a need for the gimpprint-driver package? I don't need a driver to print
over network.

Re: Printing with N900
 

attached image is the result of apt-get install cups (as root)

Re: Printing with N900
 

I cannot reproduce this problem. Anybody else getting this?
Try removing any previous cups packages. The new ones are
optified. To be more safe, remove ghostscript, too.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I had purged cups and cups-client beforehand.
I do not think that I have ghostscript installed.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Did you also purge cups-common? You have to install ghostscript, because
cups depends on it.
I tried a reinstall of these packages (purged them before) without any problems.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I have the same problem as rotoflex with a fresh install...

Re: Printing with N900
 

Afer sudo gainroot, I purged them including cups-common & ghostscript. Then apt-get install cups, with ths result:

Re: Printing with N900
 

Please retry with bash3 installed. I cannot reproduce this,
but I have bash3 installed because of openvpn.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Yup, same thing here. I have bash3 installed, too. I wonder if there's a missing dependency or somesuch...

Re: Printing with N900
 

Take a look at
/opt/maemo/usr/lib/cups
Is the backend folder present?
Then look at
/usr/lib
There should be a symlink cups to /opt/maemo/usr/lib/cups.

Re: Printing with N900
 

No the backend folder is not present.

The instructions on this thread are unfortunately too vague and diffused for me. I´m sure there is good info on your garage page, but it´s locked from other people accessing it, even with a general garage login.

This is a awesome effort mase. In this shape though it´s not very usable for others that aren´t too l33t.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Hey there,

It doesn't look much like that, no.
/usr/lib/cups is a directory (not a link) containing a filters subdirectory and nothing else, and I have no /opt/maemo/usr/lib/cups directory.

Anything else you need to know?

I'm going to try moving the dir and setting up the link, just for the hell of it.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Hmm, just purged cups-common and I still have a /usr/lib/cups in place. I wonder if this is the problem - something else I have installed has set up that directory, so creating it as a link fails, and then everything else fails too....

Re: Printing with N900
 

Please purge all cups and ghostscript packages, also cups-pdf.
Then also remove /usr/lib/cups and /usr/share/cups.
Did you try the non-optified packages first?
If yes, I think the symlinks cannot be created, because
a directory with this name already exist.
Is there anybody, where it works?

Re: Printing with N900
 

OK:
purged cups-common
moved /usr/lib/cups to /opt/maemo/usr/lib/cups
put a link in /usr/lib to /opt/maemo/usr/lib/cup
apt-get install cups

All is well. As I say, I think something else is putting /usr/lib/cups/filters in place, so when cups gets installed the link creation must fail. Or something, just a guess :)


--EDIT-- of course whilst I've been playing around with this I've figured out that the manufacturer's driver for my printer comes with some nice x86 binaries, so it's never going to work on the two arm devices I'm trying to get printing... damn them!

Re: Printing with N900
 

Just as I said. When /usr/lib/cups was created before, the installation must
fail.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I'm getting a 404 on localhost:631 now.... and cups complaining in /var/log/error_log that the port is in use. The n900 never does make my life easy.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Reboot the phone after installing cups. The cups service does not start
automatically after installation.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Tried, didn't fix it, no /usr/share/cups/banner is the error I'm getting, re-purging all cups and ghostscript to see if that helps.

Is there a similar link situation that's supposed to go on there?

--EDIT--

That seems to have got it.

apt-get --purge remove cups cups-common
mv /usr/lib/cups /opt/maemo/usr/lib/cups
ln -s /opt/maemo/usr/lib/cups /usr/lib/cups
mkdir /opt/maemo/usr/share/cups
ln -s /opt/maemo/usr/share/cups /usr/share/cups
apt-get install cups cups-client

Re: Printing with N900
 

All folders, that get linked must not exist before.
Neither /usr/share/cups, nor /usr/lib/cups.
That all is because, I had to optify the packages. They were
too large for the rootfs.

Re: Printing with N900
 

I installed bash3, then copy/pastesd david.hicks commands above, & the result is below:

Re: Printing with N900
 

This message can be ignored. It seems, that everything is ok.
Reboot your device and try to open the web frontend.

Re: Printing with N900
 

Trying again, but now, the command
apt-get --purge remove cups cups-common
produces the errors below:

Re: Printing with N900
 

I apologize, mase. I made the attempt & posted before refreshing the thread.

Re: Printing with N900
 

If the directories cannot be removed, there maybe other packages that
installed files in there. libcups2 and libcupsimage2 are such packages.
Also packages like cups-pdf and ghostscript.

Re: Printing with N900
 

OK, purged all those, repeated david.hicks commands, ignored error message about dialog, switched off & then back on.

http://localhost:631 is 404 Not Found

Re: Printing with N900
 

david.hicks commands shouldn't be necessary. I found a problem. It is of
maemo-optify which is configured to auto. In cups-common /usr/lib/cups
is not optified. Therefor the previously made symlinks are hidden. I try to
fix this.

Edit: I have uploaded new, non-optified packages. They should work now,
but they take about 10MB of rootfs, which is too much for a promotion I
think. Remember, the device has to be rebooted after installation.
Please try it!