Re: Cups problem

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

david walcroft wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:21 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

I forgot to answer did I use --nodeps,no I didn't mainly because
I did
know it was necessary.

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It shouldn't ever be necessary to use --nodeps

That's how you broke things in the first place.

If cups service is started (and didn't quit), you should be able to
use...

Administration => Printing

and set up your printer now

make sure it can print a test page from that configuration tool
before
you try printing with any other program

Craig

I don't have an 'Administration => Printing' in KDE,I'm into
'localhost:631'

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yum install system-config-printer
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 but am having problems now with password
and username,cups won't accept anything.

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root and root's password

Craig

[root@reddwarf ~]# sudo rpm -qa | grep printer
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386
[root@reddwarf ~]#


yum install system-config-printer

No package system-config-printer available.
Nothing to do.

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can't possibly be true...

# rpm -qa|grep system-config-printer
system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8

try...

yum clean all
yum install system-config-printer
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Root and Roots password do no work.

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I presume this in reference to logging into cups via firefox and
connecting to

http://localhost:631

root and root's password always work

Craig

[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer
YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/

YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
failovermethod=priority
http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
updates-released                                                 26 kB
00:00
http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged
repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
updates-released          100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386

base                      100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package system-config-printer available.

This is a problem.  If you cannot find it, there is something wrong with
your fedora repo configuration.  In fact, it hasn't been called "base"
for a while now.  It should be called "fedora".

When I do updates, yum finds the following:

atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 google 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 macromedia 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 dribble 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00 freshrpms 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00

yes, I have a few "extra" repositories configured.  But note the
"names".  Why are yours different?

system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8 exists on the original installation
media.  I can find it just by going to the repositories with my web browser.

Here is a URL to it (if you can't find it on your local media):

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386.rpm

Download it using your favorite WWW browser or wget.
(adjust the i386 part to match your architecture requirements if necessary)

install it using rpm.  In fact, I think you can give the URL directly to
rpm and it will download it and install it for you (assuming it needs no
other dependencies).

My yum download

Installed: pirut.noarch 0:1.3.28-1.fc8
Complete!

error: Failed dependencies:
       pirut is needed by system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386

My repo's are in 'local-updates local-extras local-base,
but yum does updates with no problem

[david@reddwarf ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

fedora-extra-devel.repo   gstreamer.repo                      local-base
fedora-extra.repo         home.repo                           local-devel

[david@reddwarf ~]$ I know it needs a big clean up.

  david