Got CUPS? -Printing question


Grench

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I´m running the OS from an SD card. how can I load CUPS to it for printing?
 
If you've never used opkg before, you need to do 'sudo opkg update' first. That's what tripped me up for a while.
 
do NOT opkg upgrade. It will break your system. Do an opkg update to get the packages, and be careful with what you install.
 
Mmm...?


# opkg install cups


Installing cups (1.4.3-r2.5) to root...


Downloading http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/unstable/ipk/glibc/armv7a/base/cups_1.4.3-r2.5_armv7a.ipk.


Collected errors:


* check_data_file_clashes: Package cups wants to install file /etc/pam.d/cups


But that file is already provided by package * check_data_file_clashes: libpam-base-files


* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package cups.


Obviously I am not very familiar with Angstrom and OPKG. Does this mean that HF5 is to far diverged to suport loading CUPS via OPKG?
 
Maybe. Angstrom seems to galloping away from us.


You should be able to get it to work using opkg --force-overwrite.


If you don't mind wasting bandwidth, I'd be tempted to do something like 'opkg --force-overwrite --noaction cups > logfile' and then examine logfile to see how much it wants to download first.


edit: ninja'd.
 
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This seems to have done something...


$sudo su


#opkg --force-overwrite install cups


...


Configuring cups.


#


Seems to have worked. I'll have to test it out the next time I'm near a friendly networked printer.


Thanks!
 
hmm.


System > Manage Printing


The option is now there - but selecting it does nothing. No error, no SD access light flickers, just goes back to desktop.


Interesting.
 
cups looks broken here


cupsd: symbol lookup error: cupsd: undefined symbol: _httpReadGNUTLS


pandora:/media# opkg info cups


Package: cups


Version: 1.4.3-r2.5


Depends: libcups2, libgnutls26, libc6, libz1, libpam, libacl1, libdbus-1-3, libstdc++6, libgcc1, libusb-0.1-4, libcupsimage


it would be nice to be able to print. has anyone got tips to get cups running?
 
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