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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:26:40
Message-Id: 47A2F3DA.8070802@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work by Dave Jones
1 Dave Jones wrote:
2 > Hi Kevin
3 >
4 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 27/01/08 19:58:
5 >
6 >> I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing
7 >> guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the
8 >> default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My
9 >> printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt
10 >> printer.
11 >>
12 >
13 >
14 >> What have I missed?
15 >>
16 >
17 > Run hp-setup
18 >
19 > You'll probably need to rework your cups config files if you've retained
20 > them from the broken install. hp-setup should enable local printing OK.
21 >
22 > /etc/init.d/hplip is no longer necessary with recent hplip ebuilds.
23 >
24 > Cheers, Dave
25 >
26
27 And if it still gives you problems, delete /etc/cups then reemerge
28 cups. I had to do that last part too.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)
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