Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:36:45
Message-Id: 200606242019.21965.bulliver@badcomputer.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem by "Michael W. Holdeman"
1 quoth the Michael W. Holdeman:
2 > On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:21, darren kirby wrote:
3 > > quoth the Michael W. Holdeman:
4 > > > I am having trouble with cups, part of the problem seems to be I have
5 > > > no /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp
6 > > >
7 > > > Where do I get it?
8 > >
9 > > Did you emerge cups? It is present on my system, and epm shows me that it
10 > > is owned by 'cups' so it should be on yours too. I have cups-1.1.23-r7
11 > > here.
12 > >
13 > > There are no USE flags that look germaine...try re-emerging cups I
14 > > guess...
15 >
16 > cups-1.2.1-r2 does not seem to contain /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp?
17 >
18 > Mike
19 >
20
21 OK, so are you running an ~arch system?
22 If you don't need cups 1.2.* then I think the path of least resistance is to
23 downgrade your cups to 1.1.*
24
25 I found this:
26 http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?cups-1.2.1-r2
27
28 which although cryptic seems to imply some sort of config change between 1.1
29 and 1.2 that requires some symlinks. There did not appear to be any relevant
30 bugs in bugzilla.
31
32 So...I don't know...
33
34 -d
35 --
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38 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972