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Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 09 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: |
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>>>> See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for |
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>>>> details: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> emerge -avC <all foomatic ebuilds> |
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>>>> emerge -av  <all foomatic ebuilds> |
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>>> Yes; that worked. |
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>>> |
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>>> Thank you very much for patiently answering this question -- sigh -- |
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>>> again! |
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>>> |
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>>> (Wish I had parsed it more carefully!!) |
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>> It gets easier round about the 42nd time. At least that's how it worked |
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>> for me :-) |
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> |
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> Is foomatic needed for cups to work? I have been carrying it around for the |
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> last few years, but I was not sure if it is needed. |
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I don't pretend to know how it all worked before and now, but in my case |
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I had all of the foomatic stuff stuff installed. After reading Alan's |
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advice, I decided to unmerge all of them and then let emerge tell me |
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what it needed - which is now only net-print/foomatic-filters. Works fine. |
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(I'm running an HP printer, hplp-2.8.2, and cups-1.3.7-r1.) |
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HTH |
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