Printing with java under FreeBSD

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:59:53 -0400
Nicolas Blais <nb_root at videotron.ca> wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > This works ok for me using cups 1.1.23 on 6.1-release. Printers
> > get listed and the circle and rectangle are printed without
> > exception.
> >
> > Do you have cups-lpr installed? That's required for java
> > printing with cups. Also make sure the /usr/bin/lp* symlinks
> > to /usr/local/bin/lp* are still intact, if not reinstall cups-lpr.
> >
> > -Kurt
> 
> I have cups-1.2.2 which I believed made away with a seperate cups-lpr
> package. Your solution was correct though, I made the symlinks
> to /usr/local/bin/lp* and it printed 2 pages correctly without exception.

[betom at ayiin] [Thu Sep  7 10:13:00 2006]
/usr/home/betom
$ pkg_info | grep cup
cups-1.2.2          The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple
cups-base-1.2.2     The Common UNIX Printing System
cups-pdf-2.4.1_1    A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files
cups-pstoraster-8.15 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers
cups-samba-5.0.r3   The Common UNIX Printing System:  MS Windows client drivers
gtklp-1.2.2         A gtk interface to cups
libgnomecups-0.2.2_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration

[betom at ayiin] [Thu Sep  7 10:35:58 2006]
/usr/home/betom
$ ls -la /usr/bin/lp*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  17 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lp -> /usr/local/bin/lp
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lpoptions
-> /usr/local/bin/lpoptions lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  23 Sep  7
10:35 /usr/bin/lppasswd -> /usr/local/bin/lppasswd lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel
18 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lpq -> /usr/local/bin/lpq lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel
18 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lpr -> /usr/local/bin/lpr lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel
19 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lprm -> /usr/local/bin/lprm lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel
26 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lprsetup.sh -> /usr/local/bin/lprsetup.sh lrwxr-xr-x
1 root  wheel  21 Sep  7 10:35 /usr/bin/lpstat -> /usr/local/bin/lpstat

Jedit still says 'no print service found'. Eclipse shows the print menu
disabled. I started both after creating the symlinks.

[betom at ayiin] [Thu Sep  7 10:36:05 2006]
/usr/home/betom
$ pkg_info | grep -i jdk
diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.00 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.00
linux-blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_3 Blackdown Java Development Kit 1.4 for Linux

(need both, 1.4 for linux-firefox and diablo-jdk for everything else... could
this be the problem? maybe links in the /usr/compat/linux? ) diablo is the
first one listed in javavms.

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