Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:47:42 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-firefox : cups printers not found Message-ID: <20060720144742.25d3bd4d@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060720104606.631e1b6d@localhost> References: <20060720104606.631e1b6d@localhost>
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:46:06 +1000 Norberto Meijome <freebsd@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@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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