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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:32:03
Message-Id: loom.20121009T202745-685@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble by James
1 James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
2
3 >
4 > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen <at> fu-berlin.de> writes:
5 >
6 > > Sounds fine up to here. Make sure you have a line "source
7 > > /var/lib/layman/make.conf" inside your make.conf and try to emerge the
8 > > driver. It should work then.
9 >
10 > Something is wrong.
11 >
12 > What I have:
13 > cat /etc/make.conf
14 > <snip>
15 >
16 > LAYMAN
17 actually is "##LAYMAN"
18 > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
19 > source /var/lib/layman/make.conf
20 >
21 > SO should this be (?):
22 > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman"
23 >
24 > cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf:
25 > ##PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
26 >
27 > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="$PORTDIR_OVERLAY"
28 >
29 > Here is what I get:
30 >
31 > # layman -a printer-drivers
32 > * Failed to add overlay "printer-drivers".
33 > * Error was: Overlay "printer-drivers" already in the local list!
34 >
35 > # ls /var/lib/layman/
36 > cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml make.conf.old.layman
37 > printer-drivers make.conf overlays.xml zugaina
38
39 ls -r /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/
40
41
42 Documentation licenses metadata net-print profiles skel.metadata.xml
43
44 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/Documentation:
45 README.txt bug-snippet.txt
46
47 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/licenses:
48 Brother
49
50 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/metadata:
51 layout.conf
52
53 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print:
54 brother-mfc6490cw-cups brother-mfc6490cw-lpr min12xxw
55
56 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print/brother-mfc6490cw-cups:
57 Manifest brother-mfc6490cw-cups-1.1.2_p2.ebuild metadata.xml
58
59 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print/brother-mfc6490cw-lpr:
60 Manifest brother-mfc6490cw-lpr-1.1.2_p2.ebuild metadata.xml
61
62 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print/min12xxw:
63 Manifest metadata.xml min12xxw-0.0.9-r2.ebuild
64
65 /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/profiles:
66 eapi repo_name
67
68
69 > ls -R /usr/local/portage/net-print
70 >
71 > brother-mfc6490cw-cups brother-mfc6490cw-lpr
72 >
73 > ./brother-mfc6490cw-cups:
74 > Manifest brother-mfc6490cw-cups-1.1.2_p2.ebuild
75 >
76 > ./brother-mfc6490cw-lpr:
77 > brother-mfc6490cw-lpr-1.1.2_p2.ebuild
78 >
79 > # eix printer-driver
80 > No matches found.
81 >
82 > # emerge -pv printer-drivers
83 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
84 > Calculating dependencies... done!
85 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "printer-drivers".
86 >
87 > Obviously I've got something wrong.....(following too many guides).
88
89 Suggestions? Including starting over and following a step
90 by step howto?
91
92
93 James