12-1-RELEASE Cups and Lexmark printer

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:53:13 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:52:00 +0100 Jacques Foucry
> <jacques+freebsd at foucry.net> wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > I have a issue with cups.
> > 
> > My laptop (ThinkPad X280) run FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE.
> > Cups version is 2.2.12.
> > The printer is a Lexmark MB2236.
> > 
> > I downloaded the PPD and install them with the provided shell script.
> > 
> > Cupsd is lanched, and I can create my printer with the web interface.
> > 
> > But I cannot print anything, even the test page. The result is "File not found".
> > Which file, I don't know.
> > 
> > I had to create manually /usr/lib/cups/filter.
> > 
> > Before, with 12.0-RELEASE-p10 it was running well. There was some files in
> > /usr/local/lib/cups.
> > To make cups running I made a symlink between /usr/local/lib/cups and /usr/lib/
> > 
> > With 12.1-RELEASE, no more files or directory in /usr/local/lib (for cups).
> > 
> > Is somebody could help me?
> > I am lost with this problem.
> > 
> > Thanks is advance.
> 
> Try installing cups-filters.

Additionally, the PPD file should be supplied during the
course of creating a new printer using the web interface.
No shell script is needed, and especially nothing should
be done in /usr/lib for CUPS as CUPS is _not_ part of
the OS and therefore should be confined to the /usr/local
subtree.


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