James Jones wrote:
I've upgraded from RH9 to FC1 on my wife's computer, and now find that I can't print. Looking around shows that /usr/bin/lpr is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/print ... but that's a broken link to /usr/bin/lpr.LPRng. In /usr/bin, the files lp, lpq, lpr, lprm, and lpstat have analogous problems.I had the same problem. LPRng is no longer supported -- you have to use the /etc/redhat-switch -- hmmm I'm not at the machine right now.
I would guess that I should symlink them to the matching *.cups files in /usr/bin (printconf-gui also expects lpr to be available, BTW), but OTOH attempting to run lpr.cups gives a "scheduler not responding" error. Is my guess correct, and why isn't the print queue getting started when I first bring the machine up as it was before the upgrade? (Looking in the log files didn't turn up any error message that looked related to printing.)
It might be in /usr/sbin or /usr/bin, but there's a little GUI utility.
You'll have to switch to CUPS which will fix all the /etc/alternatives... links. Then you'll have to configiure some printers. It's quite easy but also easy to forget. You'll also have to start cupsd in /etc/init.d...
James Jones
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