Cups problem

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sat Dec 15 03:46:58 UTC 2007


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.

system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386

> Root and Roots password do no work.

works for me.

>   david

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