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Subject: Re: How to add a new driver as PPD-file to CUPS?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:57:57 +0200
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Howdy,

Mekeor Melire <mekeor.melire@gmail.com> skribis:

> I'd like to print on GuixSD. I'm using the cups-service in my system
> configuration.
>
> How do I add a PPD-file driver for my printer? Do I have to create a
> package for it?

I don=E2=80=99t know!

>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] Filetype: PDF
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] Storing temporary files in /va=
r/spool/cups/tmp
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] PID 3541 (/gnu/store/00k480gc3=
j81l2f6kb67b9daxldzjqj3-cups-server-bin/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf) exited wi=
th no errors.
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] sh: gs: command not found
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] Process is dying with \"Unable=
 to determine number of pages, page count: -1
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] \", exit stat 3
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] Cleaning up...
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] PID 3543 (/gnu/store/00k480gc3=
j81l2f6kb67b9daxldzjqj3-cups-server-bin/lib/cups/backend/usb) exited with n=
o errors.
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] PID 3542 (/gnu/store/00k480gc3=
j81l2f6kb67b9daxldzjqj3-cups-server-bin/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopp=
ed with status 3.
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] End of messages
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] printer-state=3D3(idle)
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] printer-state-message=3D"Filte=
r failed"
>     D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17 +0200] [Job 1] printer-state-reasons=3Dnone
>
>     I'd guess the breaking part is "sh: gs: command not found". The
>     reason for this probably is that the PPD-file contains this line:
>
>         *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE=
 -dNO&&

I=E2=80=99ve fixed this part in =E2=80=98staging=E2=80=99:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D1728c411718e3b358=
c06561d6e80b47d7b331617

(To be merged Real Soon Now.)

For my printer I also needed foo2zjs, which I recently packaged, but I
haven=E2=80=99t yet been able to use it.

To summarize, I=E2=80=99m also trying to solver printer issues on and off, =
so
I=E2=80=99m happy to discuss these issues!  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.