On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, King Beowulf wrote:
CUPS filters are part of the printer driver package to convert what is to be printed into the correct format before sending the page to the printer. Sometimes the "filter" is the ppd driver and sometimes a separate binary file. If the filter is "missing" then CUPS and/or ppd either can't find it, or the filter is in the wrong place.
Ed, Thanks for the lesson.
Depending on the manufacturer (or CUPS) driver package. filters and ppd can be in a variety of locations. XEROX has two driver packages: .DEB is 32-bit only .RPM is 32- and 64-bit
Yes. I've used deb2tgz before and assumed yesterday that's what I had used long ago when the printer worked.
To use 32-bt, you need to either run Slackware x86_32 or convert Slackware x86_64 to full multilib. Simply installing the COMPAT32 packages is insufficient (core system 32-bit lib dependencies).
I have ALIEN BOB's multilib installed as the package list shows.
Installing .DEB or .RPM onto Slackware is non-trivial given how linux distros have drifted apart. What and how did you install? For RPMs, Slackware's rpm2tgz "sometimes" works; Slackbuilds.org's deb2tgz "might" work; but in either case you need to check the converted Slackware package to make sure everything is in the correct place.
Oh. For some reason I was unaware of rpm2tgz. I'll download the 64-bit .rpm file and convert it. How do I check that "everything is in the correct place?"
Note also that the Xerox Phaser 6000 linux drivers date from 2011 and the precompiled binary bits may no longer work on newer Slackware or other Linux distros.
Well, they worked on Slackware65-14.2 before I mistakenly did a 'clean' new install that FUBAR'd this driver a few other things.
You should not be seeing French language. Looks like you buggered something up.
Pointing the browser to http://localhost:631 -> Printers -> colorp -> Administrations -> Set default options has the title in English, the rest in French (see: < http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g4108c7918672f49d1000487111721a872889d39e79>. I'd really like to know how (and what) I buggered up. Regards, Rich
