[csw-users] CUPS 1.2.3 problems

[EBradley at williams-int.com]

I realize you are asking about the 1.2.3 version, but the following
should still hold true.


We have CUPS 1.2.4 installed from source, though it wasn't easy at
first.  We had the same 'application/postscript' error when trying to
print, until we realized:

- ESP Ghostscript is required if you want to print postscript in any
fashion

- CUPS must be installed before ESP Ghostscript

- The bin and sbin folders within the CUPS directory (we specified a
directory using the --prefix option during the configure) must be
present in your PATH before installing Ghostscript because it looks for
them during the build process


Once those are satisfied, you should be able to print using CUPS.

Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org
[mailto:users-bounces+ebradley=williams-int.com at lists.blastwave.org] On
Behalf Of Markus Mayer
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:16 PM
To: questions and discussions
Subject: Re: [csw-users] CUPS 1.2.3 problems

Hi Peter,

> Certainly the symptoms are the same and you are right, the 
> pstoraster.convs file is missing. This file WAS there earlier....
> hmmm...thinking...
> 
> In my desperation on trying to get this going I removed all printing 
> packages and did a pkg-get -i cups.

> I think I deleted espgs but it's not a dependency of cups so wasn't 
> re-installed. The file pstoraster.convs is part of espgs.
> 
> ATM I've reverted to 1.1.23 just to keep the users happy.

If you get a chance, could you give CUPS 1.2.3 another try and install
ESPGS as well?

I might change CUPS and make ESPGS a dependency. The reason I didn't do
it so far is because ESPGS is not required in all cases and I didn't
want to force users to have to install it.

Under Debian, ESPGS is a recommendation, not a dependency. The best way
to do that with the System V packaging system is to have a postinstall
script check for the presence of ESPGS and print out a warning. That
might be another option.

Regards,
-Markus
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