linux-firefox : cups printers not found
Norberto Meijome
freebsd at meijome.net
Thu Jul 20 04:47:53 UTC 2006
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:46:06 +1000
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
Interestingly, printing to this default printer pushes the data to the default
CUPS printer. (not if I say 'print to file' though).
I reinstalled cups-base to no avail.
> 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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