[CentOS] how to config printing on C7 installed from live image

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:02:02PM -0500, Negative wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 02:17:00PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > > On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 14:55:48 -0500
> > > Fred Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > I thought I needed to start the printer service (cupsd???) but I can't
> > > > find the system-config-services (or whatever it's named, if not that)
> > > > app either.
> > >
> > > systemctl start cups.service
> >
> > thanks Frank! Actually I had figured that out shortly after posting,
> > but was hung up on the subsequent problem for a while, and so didn't
> > post.
> >
> > the subsequent problem is that Brother's drivers are 32-bit and
> > if you're using 64-bit Linux you need to install the 32-bit glibc.
> > Duh.
> >
> > Now it's working.
> >
> >
> I have been hung up by the same glibc 32-bit/brother problem, but I don't
> know how to resolve it. This is a new Centos 7 installation. On a Centos 6
> system, I simply installed the 32-version and the printer worked.
> 
> But I run into a dependency/version problem that would require ever deeper
> downgrading of those libraries. When I try to install glibc.i686 , i get:
> 
> Error: Package: glibc-2.17-55.el7.i686 (base)
>            Requires: glibc-common = 2.17-55.el7
>            Installed: glibc-common-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64 (@updates)
>                glibc-common = 2.17-55.el7_0.1
> 
> Trying to downgrade glibc-common, fails on account of other glibc version
> problems.
> 
> It appears that all glibc libraries, including kernel headers, were
> upgraded, except for glibc.i686 (which I hadn't installed when I set up the
> system) has never been upgraded.
> 
> If anyone knows what I can do, where I could find a newer 32-bit glibc,
> please let me know. I can't find the matching rpm.

I had no such problems, I just did "yum install glibc.i686" and voila!
Are you sure that (1) your system is fully up to date, and (2) you haven't
installed any funky apps/libs that would be interfering here?

Fred
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