The best alternative to printerdrake is the KDE Printing Manager, start the KDE Control Center, choose "Peripherals" (or "System") and then "Printing Manager". Switch to your spooler on the lower right corner (sorry, no PDQ support) and then you have a very comfortable printer and job admin environment (most sophisticated with CUPS).
Unfortunately, The KDE Printing Manager has not this nice automatic setup for HP's multi-function devices. If you have such a device, go to the good old command line and do
urpmi hpoj libsane-hpoj0 xojpanel xsane mtoolsfm
ptal-init setup
and follow the instructions on the screen. Afterwards proceed with the KDE Printing Manager.
If you don't have/like KDE, but prefer the command line, read the file
/usr/share/doc/foomatic*/USAGE
and follow the instructions beginning from "Adding a queue", this works with all spoolers, even without spooler.
CUPS users who want to use the web interface (http://localhost:631/) should do
cd /usr/share/cups/model
foomatic-compiledb -t ppd -j4
service cups restart
to get all printers listed which are available in printerdrake or the KDE Printing Manager. Note that CUPS needs some time to rebuild its internal database, so "service cups restart" can take some minutes. "foomatic-compiledb" parallelizes in multi-processor environments, best is to set "-j" to three times the number of processors. See also "man foomatic-compiledb".
Happy printing
Till
David Walser wrote:
Yeah printerdrake doesn't seem to be working at the moment :o( For now, you can point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and you should be able to configure it through there.If they were to add that auto-detection stuff that printerdrake can do to CUPS admin, I'm not sure printerdrake would even be neccesary. PS - Take the Reply-To: out of your e-mail configuration. --- JC Pollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I tried to setup a new printer via printerdrake, and
in the expert mode, clicking on Add new printer
clicking Next
No matter which of the 5 entries I click on (from
Local Printer to Enter a Printer Device URI) and then click on Next, I get
the same screen again - nothing gets done. Nothing new shows up in the xterm
when I click on Next, but this is what it gives me up to then:
root@jc ~# printerdrake everything already installed
cupsd (pid 1338) is running...
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded
modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe
modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe
rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
everything already installed
cupsd (pid 1338) is running...
I am trying to add a win2k printer, so the expert
mode is my preferred method.
Also, the Select Printer Spooler window does not
give me anything to click on - it is empty.
JC
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