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On Wednesday 08 July 2009 16:47:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm in need to use some commercial software (Matlab and Maple) which |
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> come with their own (probably old) version of Java. |
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> Now, both of those software packages cannot print, they don't see any |
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> CUPS printer UNLESS I remove the symlink /usr/lib/libcups.so which |
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> points to libcups.so.2 |
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> But some GenToo packages do need that link, e.g. x11-lib/qt-gui won't |
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> install unless that link is there. |
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> I remember there is a bug with older versions of Java accessing CUPS, |
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> and probably my commercial packages contain such an old version. |
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> Does anybody know how to fix or circumvent this. |
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> (Currently I have to remove the symlink when using one of these |
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> commercial packages and reinstall it afterwards, but ... for a normal |
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> user without root priviledges that's not possible unless I write an SUID |
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> script) |
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> Thanks for any hints, |
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Just an idea, not tested: |
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Is there another "libcups.so" file somewhere? |
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If yes, create a wrapper-script that puts the location of the other |
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"libcups.so" file first in the search list for the LDPATH-variable. |
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HTH, |
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Joost |
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