linux-firefox : cups printers not found

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Thu Jul 20 00:46:13 UTC 2006


hi all,
I recently changed www/firefox for www/linux-firefox . I now realised that my
CUPS printers are not available from File - Print., only 'Postcript/default' is
available.

Cupsd is available and managed fine on localhost:631. I can print via lpr
-Pprintername, openoffice does show the cups printers in its dropdown.

I am not sure how to proceed. Is there an option to enable cups support in
linux-firefox? Am I supposed to rebuild linux-firefox from source (but ... how
from freebsd? :-? )

The system is:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD ayiin.xxxx.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Sat Jul 15
12:29:06 EST 2006
root at ayiin.xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AYIIN  i386

linux-firefox itself tells me this about it:
Generated: Thu Jul 20 2006 10:44:43 GMT+1000 (EST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508
FreeBSD/i386 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Build ID: 2006050817


$ pkg_info | grep -i cups
cups-1.2.0          The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple
cups-base-1.2.0_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
libgnomecups-0.2.2_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration

$ pkg_info | grep firefox
firefox-remote-20040803 Wrapper scripts for firefox web browser
linux-firefox-1.5.0.4 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla

$ pkg_info | grep linux
linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary
linux-atk-1.9.1     Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary
linux-expat-1.95.8  Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
linux-firefox-1.5.0.4 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
linux-flashplugin-7.0r63 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla
and linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_5 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig
linux-glib2-2.6.6   Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib
linux-gtk2-2.6.10   GTK+ library, version 2.X, Linux binary
linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 A high-color icon theme shell from the FreeDesktop
project linux-jpeg-6b.34    RPM of the JPEG lib
linux-pango-1.8.1   Linux pango binary
linux-png-1.2.8_2   RPM of the PNG lib
linux-realplayer-10.0.7.785.20060201 Linux RealPlayer 10 from RealNetworks
linux-tiff-3.7.1    TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary
linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries
linux_base-fc-4_6   Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)
linux_dri-6.5       Binary Linux DRI libraries for 3D hardware acceleration of
linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_4 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with
native applica

Thanks for any help!!
Beto


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