A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > >> I installed magicfilter on a i386 machine because I was >>confortable with it's use with LPRng under Debian. I knew it came >>with a configuration tool, magicfilterconfig, but that tool is >>missing in my installation (from sources). There does not seem to >>be a separate package with it. So, where is it? If it's no >>longer part of the magicfilter package, what can I use >>(documentation?) to generate a working printcap file? > > > You should really have esearch or eix installed (or at least use "emerge > -S"): > > $ eix magicfilter > * net-print/magicfilter > Available versions: 1.2-r4 2.3a ~2.3d > Installed: no > Homepage: > http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/ > Description: Customizable, extensible automatic printer filter > >
Thank you for your hint. However, I realize the magicfilterconfig tool is Debian-specific, since there is no trace of it in the official source code I just downloaded from http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/magicfilter-2.3.d.tar.gz I wish Gentoo too had it! -- Alessandro Selli Tel: 340.839.73.05 http://alessandro.route-add.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
