[CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything
Michael Hennebry
hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Nov 7 19:10:00 UTC 2019
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Pete Biggs wrote:
[Michael Hennebry]
>> 'Tain't as big a deal as having none,
>> but why does CUPS have two queue names for the printer?
>
> Do you have CUPS autodiscover turned on? (AKA Avahi on Linux systems),
> if so CUPS will have automatically added the printer in addition to the
> one you manually added.
Ah. That makes sense.
>> I think they were the same packages that I tried to use.
>> In any case, they both ended in 386.
>
> Once again, do you have a 64 bit system? If so, then any executables
> in the RPMs won't work unless you have added the 32-bit compatibility
> stuff. RPMs aren't magic, they need to have the requirements added by
> the packager and if the requirements aren't mentioned in the RPM, it
> will still install, but none of the executables will run. They will
> come up with Bad ELF errors.
It must have found whatever it needed:
Both queues work.
> system-config-printer is the old way of adding and managing printers.
> It's a GUI, but you can start it from a command line in a GUI
> environment (i.e. it's not a command line program). But it's just a
> front end, you still need the underlying drivers there before it can
> configure a printer.
Add printer worked after I added myself to the lp and sys groups.
The cups_error file gave me something to search for.
All good now.
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