[rock-devel] Printing setup script

[Stefan Fiedler]

Am Samstag, 11. August 2007 14:58:00 schrieb Terry Mackintosh:
> Hi all
>
> For me printing is one area of rock that has always been a pain in the
> ass.  Maybe I just don't know how to do it, don't know.
>
Setting up printers on Linux has long been a complicated issue from what I've 
heard. With a recent crystal build (or any other distro) all you need is to 
enable the cups printer server (e.g. via stone) and add a new printer with 
e.g. the KDE printer manager or the web administration interface built into 
cups. Creating any symlinks to programs is not required.

> In any event it seemed to me that the logical place to configure
> printing from was stone.  As I recall there used to be something there
> that did not work, but as of the latest 2.0.3 build that I did some time
> ago, there is nothing.
Do you really mean ROCK 2.0.3? It's age-old, and not supported anymore. I 
recommend using trunk or at least ROCK 3.

>
> My understanding of setting up printing is weak, but I wrote the
> attached script to go in /etc/stone.d/ called mod_printing.sh.
>
> It works for setting up cups, and may work for setting up lprng, see
> comments in script.  Someone else can surely do better, I only offer
> this up because no one else has.
I just checked on one PC running a crystal build which is about as old as ROCK 
3, and printing in KDE (3.5.3) works without any symlinks to *_cups binaries. 
The printer is a Canon BJC 6200 and is known to cups, so to set it up I just 
had to start the cups server as an init script (which comes with ROCK), and 
add the printer via the KDE control center.

With best regards,
Stefan Fiedler