On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Wayne Topa wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Florian Kriener wrote:
On Thursday 17 September 2009 06:31:36 Bret Busby wrote:
I have a Samsung CLP300 colour laser printer.
When I connected it to my laptop, in each of both Ubuntu 8.04 and
Debian 5, which was installed as a clean install, the printer was
automatically installed and set up (I didn't have to do anything - it
just appeared as an installed printer, ready to use).
Responsible for printing is CUPS. Please check if you have it installed
and all packages containing CUPS, that your other machine has installed.
You can get that list with `aptitude "~icups"`.
HIH,
Flo.
To see if you have all cups packages use
dpkg -l cups*
"
b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ dpkg -l cups*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii cups 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - server
ii cups-bsd 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cups-client 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) - common files
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4 printer drivers
for CUPS
ii cups-pdf 2.4.8-3 PDF printer for
CUPS
un cups-pt <none> (no description
available)
ii cupsddk 1.2.3-5 CUPS Driver
Development Kit
ii cupsddk-drivers 1.2.3-5 CUPS Driver
Development Kit - Driver files
un cupsomatic-ppd <none> (no description
available)
ii cupsys 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-bsd 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-client 1.3.8-1+lenny6 Common UNIX
Printing System (transitional package)
pn cupsys-common <none> (no description
available)
un cupsys-driver-gimpprint <none> (no description
available)
un cupsys-driver-gimpprint-d <none> (no description
available)
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4 printer drivers
for CUPS
b...@bretnewworkstation:~$
"
Have you used the interface to configure the printer?
ie http://localhost:631
I do not understand - how can I configure the printer, if it is not able
to be installed, and is therefore not installed?
I had a bit of work reconfiguring my printers when I switched to a USB to
parallel port connection.
I believe that it is notsomuch an issue related to the USB aspect, as an
issue of the inconsistecy betwen the upgrade and clean install versions
of Debian 5, as the delinquent installation of Debian 5, quite happily
accesses other USB devices, such as, as previously mentioned, the
Samsung ML-2010 monochrome laser printer, which is also from the same
manufacturer (or, at least, is "badged" as such), as the printer than I
cannot install.
A number of issues are indicated here.
The first, is that the printer (the CLP-300) is properly detected, by
both the two printer management utilities previously named, even if one
of the printer management utilities does not show any of the colour
laser printer drivers for the particular brand, as being available to
install, whereas the other printer management utility does include two
listed printer drivers as being available for the printer.
The second, is that the foomatic-gui printer manager utility, both
detects the printer, and, indicates that two printer drivers are
available for installation, then, as installing each of the printer
drivers (one at a time, for each attempt) is selected, and, the process
followed, to install the appropriate printer driver, foomatic-gui
merrily pretends that it is successfully installing the appropriate
printer driver, and thus, merrily pretends to add the printer, but, in
fact, does nothing, and, hides that it has problems, with any error
messages via a dialogue box, being conspicuous by their absence. Thus,
the foomatic-gui printer management utility appears to be defective.
The third issue, and, the one that (possibly) annoys me the most, is
that the upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5, does not result in an
installation of Debian 5, that is the same, and, that has the same
functionality, as an clean install of Debian 5, thus indicating that, if
we want to upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5, the only really successful
way of doing it, is apparently to uninstall Debian 4 (involving the
resultant loss of all system related data, and other data, including
configuration files, etc), and to then do a clean install of Debian 5,
thus meaning that an upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5, is not really
possible, as an upgrade process.
Thus, Debian 5 appears to be not yet, quite "stable", but is rather,
still in the "testing" stage. And, yes, this is a bit "testing".
"
b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ aptitude "~icups" | less
Unknown command "~icups"
One of the aptitude shortcuts I have yet to comprehend.
HTH
Wayne
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
....................................................
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
