Hello, all. I have a pristine install of Squeeze with Trinity 3.5.12. I clicked on Settings / Peripherals / Printers to add a new printer. I entered Administration mode which asked me for my user password as it I was using sudo rather than the root password as if I was using su.
I clicked on Add a printer. It took a very long time but eventually brought up the new printer wizard. I selected an TCP printer, entered the IP address, clicked next and was told:
The executable /opt/kde3/bin/make_driver_db_cups could not be found in your PATH. Check that this program exists and is accessible in your PATH variable.
Not surprising as I would suspect this is in /opt/trinity/bin. Is this something I am doing wrong or a bug?
I created a symbolic link named /opt/kde3 for /opt/trinity. It did not eliminate the long waits but it did allow me to create the printer. Thanks - John
Hi John, try http://localhost:631/ in a browser.
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:39 +0100, HHa wrote:
Hi John, try http://localhost:631/ in a browser.
Strange. I wasn't going to use the cups interface because I wanted to get Trinity to work. However, I was also having a problem installing an HP PSC1610. The driver did not appear in the TDE printer manager. So I tried the cups interface and, lo and behold, it worked in a jiffy AND the PSC1600 series driver was there. So something seems a bit awry in the Trinity printer manager. Thanks - John
Hi John,
HP PSC1610
HP is the only company I know who support Linux completely. You may have a look at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 09:10 +0100, HHa wrote:
Hi John,
HP PSC1610
HP is the only company I know who support Linux completely. You may have a look at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
Thanks, Hartmut, but the problem isn't with HP - the driver is there because I can install the printer with the CUPS web interface. The problem is with Trinity which does not see the installed driver - John
Hi John,
The problem is with Trinity which does not see the installed driver
are you sure? With Kubuntu 10.04 I have no problems. I suspect it's a Debian problem.
Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2011 schrieb HHa:
Hi John,
The problem is with Trinity which does not see the installed driver
are you sure? With Kubuntu 10.04 I have no problems. I suspect it's a Debian problem.
As mentioned before, you'll have to install hplip. These are the packages, that got pulled in when I installed it on my debian:
hplip hplip-cups hplip-data hplip-gui
then you have to call hp-setup as root to setup the printer.
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 18:00 +0100, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2011 schrieb HHa:
Hi John,
The problem is with Trinity which does not see the installed driver
are you sure? With Kubuntu 10.04 I have no problems. I suspect it's a Debian problem.
As mentioned before, you'll have to install hplip. These are the packages, that got pulled in when I installed it on my debian:
hplip hplip-cups hplip-data hplip-gui
then you have to call hp-setup as root to setup the printer.
Thanks all, but that's not the issue. The drivers are there but Trinity is not seeing them. In fact, I also installed an HP2605dn via Trinity and it used some very inadequate and feature poor driver. I just modified it using the CUPS web interface and all the features are now there.
I suspect it may be a Debian/Trinity issue because of the previously mentioned issue of the missing path to /opt/kde3 which I believe is where Trinity stores its files on Ubuntu (not 100% certain) whereas it is /opt/trinity on Debian. Thanks again - John
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Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp