Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> writes: > Rodolfo Medina [2017-03-07 15:41:54Z] wrote: > >> Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be >> configured. But it does not print, and, when I get into `jobs', I see >> they are stopped with "Filter failed" claim. What can I do? Please >> help. Thanks. > > I had a "filter failed" problem too in Debian 8 and solved it by > installing newer ghostscript package from Debian testing. This bug > report looks familiar: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848876 > > In case you want to try that and you are using Debian 8 you could > proceed with this: > > 1. Add Debian testing repository to /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main > > 2. Run: apt update > > 3. Run: apt install ghostscript/testing > > 4. Remove the "deb" line from sources.list file. > > 5. Run: apt update
Thanks for your suggestion, but ghostscript is already installed in my system, which is Sid... So I don't think testing woul do do any better... Rodolfo
