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Subject: Re: Libreoffice printing on Freebsd via LPD spooling
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Juris Kaminskis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not having CUPS but native LPD. When I try to use printing on
> Libreoffice I get following error:
>
> ./spadmin
>
> No printers can be installed, because the file system is read-only.
> Please contact your system administrator.
>
> Do you know how to enable printing support on Libre?

I looked at that a few weeks ago, and it appears that the error is due 
to it looking for CUPS even when built without CUPS.  More 
specifically, I think it's looking for the cupsd server, possibly even 
just files for it or some other CUPS component.

Frustratingly, I managed to make it work, but upgraded the system, did 
not take notes of what I did, and can't seem to make it work again.  In 
any case, it was without modifying LibreOffice, just doing 
...something... which then allowed spadmin to run.  I defined a couple 
of printers as lpr commands, and they worked.