Cups problem
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sat Dec 15 05:45:16 UTC 2007
david walcroft wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:21 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I forgot to answer did I use --nodeps,no I didn't mainly because
>>>>>>> I did
>>>>>>> know it was necessary.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>> It shouldn't ever be necessary to use --nodeps
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's how you broke things in the first place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If cups service is started (and didn't quit), you should be able to
>>>>>> use...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Administration => Printing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and set up your printer now
>>>>>>
>>>>>> make sure it can print a test page from that configuration tool
>>>>>> before
>>>>>> you try printing with any other program
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have an 'Administration => Printing' in KDE,I'm into
>>>>> 'localhost:631'
>>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> yum install system-config-printer
>>>> ----
>>>>
>>>>> but am having problems now with password
>>>>> and username,cups won't accept anything.
>>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> root and root's password
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>>
>>> [root at reddwarf ~]# sudo rpm -qa | grep printer
>>> system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386
>>> [root at reddwarf ~]#
>>>
>>>
>>> yum install system-config-printer
>>>
>>> No package system-config-printer available.
>>> Nothing to do.
>>>
>> ----
>> can't possibly be true...
>>
>> # rpm -qa|grep system-config-printer
>> system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8
>> system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8
>>
>> try...
>>
>> yum clean all
>> yum install system-config-printer
>> ----
>>
>>> Root and Roots password do no work.
>>>
>> ----
>> I presume this in reference to logging into cups via firefox and
>> connecting to
>>
>> http://localhost:631
>>
>> root and root's password always work
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer
> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
> baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/
>
> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
> failovermethod=priority
> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> updates-released 26 kB
> 00:00
> http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged
> repomd.xml file
> Trying other mirror.
> updates-released 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 914 kB 00:01
> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping -
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
>
> base 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file
> Trying other mirror.
> base 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 914 kB 00:01
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> No package system-config-printer available.
This is a problem. If you cannot find it, there is something wrong with
your fedora repo configuration. In fact, it hasn't been called "base"
for a while now. It should be called "fedora".
When I do updates, yum finds the following:
> atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
> google 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> macromedia 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
> dribble 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
> freshrpms 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
> fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
yes, I have a few "extra" repositories configured. But note the
"names". Why are yours different?
system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8 exists on the original installation
media. I can find it just by going to the repositories with my web browser.
Here is a URL to it (if you can't find it on your local media):
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386.rpm
Download it using your favorite WWW browser or wget.
(adjust the i386 part to match your architecture requirements if necessary)
install it using rpm. In fact, I think you can give the URL directly to
rpm and it will download it and install it for you (assuming it needs no
other dependencies).
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
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