[Malvern] CUPS printing.

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:14:31PM +0000, Geoff Bagley wrote:
> Hi Gang.
> 
> It appears that there is a dependency problem with running CUPS on Debian.
> 
> KDE requires   libcupssys2,  but GNU stuff requires libcupsys2-gnutls10.
> These are in conflict.
> 
> My problem is that I like the KDE desktop,  but prefer  some of the GNU
> applications ....  e.g. gnumeric gv (ghostview) and other none-KDE
> stuff like Abiword, firefox, thunderbird, etc.
> 
> Currently on my "Sarge" machine I can't print any.
> 
> Strangely,  I think that the "Sid"  crowd are tackling this,  but I don't
> want to be that adventurous.
> 
> Maybe I should change back to Gnome !

You shouldn't have to.  Just run basic LPR or some other print system
which'll do what you want.  All of them will let you run whatever print
filters you need to get postscript out of your printer.

> Anyone else had this one ?

Why don't you just ditch CUPS?

Chris
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