On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 21:19 +0000, John Cooper wrote:
> > See You in February. There is no Printed manual for Ubuntu. Ask Your
> > questions here, if you can't find them in the Forums or the Ubuntu Wiki
> > Documentation.
> 
> The Official Ubuntu Book (Prentice Hall) is ok for newbies.
> 
> > 
> > eg. In Kubuntu 9.10, I used to have a printer, Laserjet 5M, but it now
> > doesn't work, I have removed it and re-installed it, and checked all the
> > connections, 
> > 
> > and get "There was an error during the CUPS operation:
> > 'client-error-document-format-not-supported'." when I try to do a self
> > test. 
> > 
> > Any body else had similar problems? I suspect one of the upgrades.
> > 
> > Peter M.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Try :-
> Uncomment application/octet-stream in /etc/cups/mime.types
> and uncomment application/octet-stream in /etc/cups/mime.convs.
> 
> I notice F12 Cups config is different and no longer has these two files
> in /etc/cups. Try `locate mime.types`. My cups and samba setup :-
> 
> http://discoverlinux.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36
> 
These files are in /usr/share/cups/mime/..

and it is not commented in either file. 

there is also a mime.types in /etc, but it has different format and
application octet-stream is not commented in that. 

Peter






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