Re: printing difficulties after upgrade to FC1

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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 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.)

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.
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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