Two questions

2001-10-15 Thread sheine
1. Without going into details of how I did it, I fouled up lpd or lpr. When I try to print something, I get: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon How do I correct whatever is wrong? I tried magicfilterconfig and it did not help. 2. Is there a linux equivalent to presizer,

Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
Tommi Komulainen wrote: Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
I changed the permissions and got new troubles. The soa and sop files started, but told me that I did not have enough disk memory, when I am reasonably sure that I do. The first so file told me that I needed the directory on the last so file. When I tried it, I was told that a bin file couldn't

Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread sheine
I have downloaded all the files for Star Office 6, but haven't the slightest idea of how to install them. The guide describes a method that relates to the CD version. All the files are of the form *.bin. Does anybody know what to do next?

Re: xdm crash

2001-10-11 Thread sheine
I followed up on my reported guess that my hard disk was full by removing files. My xdm is now working.

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread sheine
Thank you Andrew J. Perrin. After your last message, I ran dpkg -l and found that gs had not been installed when I thought it was. I reran the installation. Both Star Office and Netscape are now printing.

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread sheine
Response to : Looks like you don't have ghostscript installed (or at least installed correctly). gs's role is to take postscript output (which SO and Netscape generate) and translate it into your printer's native format. Try: apt-get install gs-aladdin and see if that works. When I tried to

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread sheine
I forgot to answer one question of the following; What happens when you try to print? Anything? Is there anything in /var/log/lp-acct, /var/log/lp-errs, or /var/log/lpr.log? Have you tried using magicfilter to handle printing? (I haven't used Opera, but Netscape and SO both print fine for me.