unofficial mirror of help-guix@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Kyle Andrews <kyle.c.andrews@gmail.com>
To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Printer configuration
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:06:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1u2le4l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuyylgo7.fsf@gmail.com>


Kyle Andrews writes:

> Dear Guix,
>
> Could you help me get my printer working?
>
> I setup my cups service:
>
> ...
> (use-modules ...
> 	     (gnu packages cups)
>              ...)
> (use-service-modules ... cups ...)
> ...
>   (service cups-service-type
> 		   (cups-configuration
> 		    (extensions
> 		     (list hplip-minimal cups-filters splix))
> 		    (server-name host-name)
> 		    (host-name-lookups #t)
> 		    (web-interface? #t)))
> ...
>
> Then I reconfigured my system and restarted. Now I can access the CUPS
> page on localhost:631. However, I could not figure out that interface
> for the life of me. Instead, I found out I could install the
> `system-config-printer' package which provided a setup utility that
> actually made sense, giving me hope of falling into a "pit of
> success". It detected my printer, great! Unfortunately, it failed to
> print a test page, popping up a warning box with the text:
>
> Printer 'SCX-4200' requires the '/gnu/store/.../cups/filter/rastertoqpdl'
> program but it is not currently installed.
>
> I'm not sure what to do now. Thanks in advance for any suggestions on
> how to resolve this.
>
> Best Regards,
> Kyle

After sending I realized there were two pieces of information I forgot
to include that might be of interest towards diagnosing the difficulty:

1.) The printer is a SCX-4200 and is listed as working on
openprinting.org.

2.) the slice of the error message I showed was incomplete: the guix
package where rastertoqpdl is being searched for is in cups, yet the
tool is clearly available in the splix package. Why is
system-config-printer looking in the wrong package? How can I make the
service see both?

Thanks,
Kyle



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-26  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-26  2:11 Printer configuration Kyle Andrews
2020-06-26  3:06 ` Kyle Andrews [this message]
2020-06-26  7:32 ` Wiktor Żelazny
2020-06-26 16:56   ` Kyle Andrews
2020-06-26 17:27     ` Wiktor Żelazny
2020-06-26 18:13       ` Kyle Andrews
2020-06-26 19:42         ` Wiktor Żelazny
2020-06-26 22:12           ` Kyle Andrews
2020-06-27  7:02             ` Wiktor Żelazny
2020-06-27 16:02               ` Kyle Andrews
2020-06-26 20:19         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87r1u2le4l.fsf@gmail.com \
    --to=kyle.c.andrews@gmail.com \
    --cc=help-guix@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).