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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:10:13
Message-Id: 5073F7A5.1010706@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble by James
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4 On 08.10.2012 14:52, James wrote:
5 > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen <at> fu-berlin.de> writes:
6 >
7 >
8 >> Ok - you're trying two different approaches at the same time.
9 >> I'd recommend you to just use the printer-drivers overlay.
10 >
11 > Yep know doubts, I looked at too many different wiki and other
12 > googled resources. I could not find a simple here are the steps to
13 > installing "printer" overlays, compiling them, making the config
14 > changes and then testing via CUPS.
15 >
16 > OK, I'll the print drivers first.
17 >
18 >> Normally layman should take care of the contents of
19 >> /var/lib/layman/make.conf. Maybe it doesn#t work because you
20 >> created an empty one. You could try to simply delete it and
21 >> afterwards rerun layman -a printer-drivers. If that doesn't solve
22 >> your problem, recreate the file with the following content:
23 >
24 >> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" $PORTDIR_OVERLAY"
25 >
26 >> Afterwards try layman -a printer-drivers again.
27 >
28 > #layman -l * printer-drivers [Git ]
29 > (git://git.o.g.o/proj/printer-drivers.git ) * zugaina
30 > [Rsync ] (rsync://gentoo.zugaina.org/zugaina-portage )
31 >
32 > OK it's installed. I would think emerging it is next? But that does
33 > not seem to work with emerge?
34
35 Sounds fine up to here. Make sure you have a line "source
36 /var/lib/layman/make.conf" inside your make.conf and try to emerge the
37 driver. It should work then.
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