lpr and /etc/alternatives/print-lpr
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed May 12 17:19:23 UTC 2004
Am Mi, den 12.05.2004 schrieb Fred Nastos um 18:06:
> Hi,
>
> I updated a redhat7.3 system to fedora for a friend (so I don't know
> all the system details), but now his computer can't print. It looks
> like lpr, and associated printing commands are missing.
> But the linked-to files in /etc/alternatives do not exist. In fact, some
> of these link to other files that do not exist.
> Thanks
Fedora comes by default with cups, so install it. Maybe you will have to
manually delete misleading links in /etc/alternatives/ afterwards.
$ la /etc/alternatives/print*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 8. Nov 2003 /etc/alternatives/print ->
/usr/bin/lpr.cups
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 8. Nov 2003 /etc/alternatives/print-cancel
-> /usr/bin/cancel.cups
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 8. Nov 2003
/etc/alternatives/print-cancelman ->
/usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz
...
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/lpr.cups
cups-1.1.19-13
Alexander
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