Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:03:14 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cannot print in kde apps using lp Message-ID: <20061023180314.GA4195@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20061023174505.99456.qmail@web31510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061023174505.99456.qmail@web31510.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:45:05AM -0700, Karl Agee wrote:
> I posted about this about a month ago, thought i had
> it it figured out but I guess I fooled myself.
>
> I have kde 3.5.4 installed in fbsd6.1. I cannot print
> from kde applications, such as the printer control
> module, kpdf, etc.
>
> I can print just_fine from OO.o, Firefox and Adobe
> Reader 7.
>
> The error kde gives me is:
>
> usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1'
> '/usr/local/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps' :
> execution failed with message:
> /usr/local/bin/lpr: Connection refused
>
> I do have cups installed but it is not running or
> enabled.
>
> I dont understand why I can print from non-kde apps
> but not from kde apps.
The problem is the `lpr' that KDE is invoking. It's using it's own
internal version that requires CUPS to be running. I don't like
CUPS, so I recompiled the whole of KDE making sure that x11/kdelibs3
had the flag -DWITHOUT_CUPS. With this flag, KDE runs /usr/bin/lpr
instead.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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