Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:29:22 -0400 From: "rance@frontiernet.net" <rance@frontiernet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS? Message-ID: <20050919222922.p1vmio0okogg48c8@webmail.frontiernet.net> In-Reply-To: <54db439905091723305c2835a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <BAY107-F326A231124B3A2BFCFAE3EA4910@phx.gbl> <BAY107-F35E837856F9C7C655CEDCDA4910@phx.gbl> <54db439905091723305c2835a8@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>: > On 9/16/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorious@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > What do I have to do to install/use HPIJS without devoting my life > > to > > becoming a FreeBSD+CUPS expert?! (Setting up CUPS+foomatic+HPIJS > > was a > > breeze under Gentoo!) > > I find that apsfilter is a lot easier to install and configure than > is > CUPS, and it appears that the HPIJS driver got installed on my system > when I installed apsfilter. I don't use CUPS unless I really need > the > Internet Printing Protocol. > > - Bob Eric: I had the same problem when I moved from gentoo to freebsd, (which is only about two weeks ahead of you considering that is why I joined this list in the first place. im not sure if you are working from ports or not, but I chose to do prebuilt packages, just to get the system going I did a pkg_add -r ghostscript-gnu (not sure if this is required or not. then I did a pkg_add -r cups then pkg_add -r foomatic-db pkg_add -r foomatic-db-engine pkg_add -f foomatic-filters (please note I couldnt find a "meta" package that installs everything) then I did a pkg_add -r hpijs and that was all I needed to get cups running with my hp laserjet 1100 printer. Rance
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