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git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers

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git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers Michael J. Hammel 01 Jan 23:55
  git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers Robert Krawitz 02 Jan 00:36
   git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers Michael J. Hammel 02 Jan 22:45
    git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers Olivier 03 Jan 07:19
Michael J. Hammel
2012-01-01 23:55:39 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers

I've got a printer configured under CUPS. GIMP 2.6 installed from yum on F14 sees the printer okay. My custom built GIMP 2.7 does not. I built the print plugin, which doesn't appear to have any CUPS related dependencies that I can see. The print plugin only shows print to file and print to lpr.

Also, I wonder if the 2.6 build is just using the GTK+ print dialog? Seems a little different than the GIMP 2.7 Print plugin.
I've looked through the configure options for GTK+ and GIMP and the only meaningful print option appears to be to disable building the print plugin for GIMP. I don't see anything related to specifically using CUPS.

Is there another library that needs configuration for use with CUPS in order for GIMP's print dialog to see the printer?
FYI: I built Gutenprint's plugin and it sees the printer okay.

Any pointers appreciated. Thanks.

Robert Krawitz
2012-01-02 00:36:56 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers

On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:55:39 -0700, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

I've got a printer configured under CUPS. GIMP 2.6 installed from yum on F14 sees the printer okay. My custom built GIMP 2.7 does not. I built the print plugin, which doesn't appear to have any CUPS related dependencies that I can see. The print plugin only shows print to file and print to lpr.

Also, I wonder if the 2.6 build is just using the GTK+ print dialog? Seems a little different than the GIMP 2.7 Print plugin. I've looked through the configure options for GTK+ and GIMP and the only meaningful print option appears to be to disable building the print plugin for GIMP. I don't see anything related to specifically using CUPS.

You may need to install the CUPS development package and rerun configure (remove config.cache first).

Is there another library that needs configuration for use with CUPS in order for GIMP's print dialog to see the printer?
FYI: I built Gutenprint's plugin and it sees the printer okay.

Gutenprint uses a hacked-up mechanism based on lpstat or lpc (as appropriate) to query printers. It's ugly, but it works on a wide variety of systems.

Michael J. Hammel
2012-01-02 22:45:14 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers

On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 19:36 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote:

You may need to install the CUPS development package and rerun configure (remove config.cache first).

My build script does a "make distclean" before building, which should cover the config.cache. Also, I already have cups-devel installed.

I built 2.7.3 via git but still have the problem. I can't build 2.7.4 or HEAD because of some dependency issues (long story). So I guess it just isn't going to work until I upgrade to F16. Maybe. Or find an F14 RPM of pcre 8.11 (to resolve glib dependencies).

Thanks for the tips, though.

Olivier
2012-01-03 07:19:39 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

git print dialog doesn't see CUPS printers

2012/1/2 Michael J. Hammel

On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 19:36 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote:

You may need to install the CUPS development package and rerun configure (remove config.cache first).

My build script does a "make distclean" before building, which should cover the config.cache. Also, I already have cups-devel installed.

I built 2.7.3 via git but still have the problem. I can't build 2.7.4 or HEAD because of some dependency issues (long story). So I guess it just isn't going to work until I upgrade to F16. Maybe. Or find an F14 RPM of pcre 8.11 (to resolve glib dependencies).

I have the same problem as you with Ubuntu 11.04, thus maybe it's not

specific to your version of Fedora. Incidentally, to be able to compile the git version, I was forced to delete the system *.la files in /usr/lib and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu. This being done, and once the dependencies are compiled in the proper order, I can update my GIMP installation once a week, or more.

Thus maybe we should file a bug about this weird behavior of the Image: File -> Print entry?

Olivier Lecarme