On 2016-02-02 11:45, swedebugia@riseup.net wrote:
> On 2016-02-01 14:43, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>> swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:
>> 
>>> I installed cups and xfce. What more do I need?
>> 
>> For printers available on the network as in a typical “enterprise”
>> setup, nothing more: the “print” dialog in Evince and similar tools 
>> will
>> discover it and do the right thing.
>> 
>>> In
>>> https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Services.html#Services
>>> I did not find a service declaration for CUPS.
>>> 
>>> What is the next step?
>> 
>> For a locally-connected printer you’ll certainly need a CUPS daemon
>> running, indeed.  I’m not sure exactly what it takes, but it would
>> clearly be a worthwhile addition!
> 
> OK. I gave it a try and this is how far I got:
> The manpages and documentation on cups.org is rather useless regarding
> installation and formatting of the config-files.
> 
> The package installs corrupt config-files according to
> $ cupsd -t
> "/gnu/store/qs3xymcsgxa68i8m188261rhxsszx7za-cups-2.1.0/etc/cups/cups-files.conf"
> contains errors.
> 
> I have a running working installation of cups 1.7 on my trisquel 7
> machine. I tried copying the working (very similar) configs from there
> which the trisquel-cupsd report as 'OK'.
> => It did not help and the error is not as detailed as I would like
> and there is no debug option is seems.
> 
> Is there a good free non-apple-owned alternative to CUPS I could try 
> instead?

The cupsd.conf I tried is attached. I now also tried this as root and 
testing with cupsd afterward without any succes:
cp -r /gnu/store/qs3xymcsgxa68i8m188261rhxsszx7za-cups-2.1.0/var/* /var/

Maybe the error is that the socket referenced in cupsd.conf is missing:
"# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock"

The socket is missing in the store and from the path above. I have no 
idea yet how to create it manually.

cheers
sdb