Description of problem: I've tried using gutenprint to get the printer commands working. I've installed gutenprint and gutenprint-cups, and restarted CUPS, and after setting up a new queue I can see some buttons in the CUPS web interface: Clean Print Heads Print Self-Test Page Neither of these works. I have seen various errors in error_log, like: d [03/Nov/2006:14:38:01 +0000] [CGI] printer_state_message[0]="Filter "commandto epson" for printer "stylus" not available: No such file or directory" and E [03/Nov/2006:14:38:22 +0000] [Job 84] /undefined in #CUPS-COMMAND Are printer commands expected to work currently? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gutenprint-5.0.0-0.15.fc6 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up new queue 2. Use CUPS web interface to clean print heads or print self-test page
In fact it's worse than that: printer stylus disabled since Sun 05 Nov 2006 10:08:34 GMT - Filter "commandtoepson" for printer "stylus" not available: No such file or directory and gutenprint.spec actually removes this filter deliberately: rm -rf %{buildroot}%{cups_serverbin}/filter/commandtocanon rm -rf %{buildroot}%{cups_serverbin}/filter/commandtoepson We should be shipping these command filters shouldn't we?
Tim, This package is targetted to FC7 core replacing gimp-print. Though this has not been discussed on any Fedora mailing list for its entry in FC7 core yet but to get test results of this package before it goes to Core repo and to maintain existing gimp-print package in Core, those files are removed. Its kind of making parallel installation of gutenprint with gimp-print. So you can remove existing gimp-print and recompile gutenprint and use it. In case you fine any thing need to be improved or changed, kindly tell me. I know you are the maintainer of gimp-print so you must be having good experience for printing packages. Write back in case you need any more help. Hope this gives answer to this bug query.
Ah, it's to fix a conflict with gimp-print-cups (which I didn't have installed). Thanks for the clarification. I'm investigating what needs to be done before gutenprint can be brought into Core. So one of the things is that gutenprint needs to take ownership of these filters when it replaces gimp-print. I've changed 'version' to 'devel' to reflect that.
I'll take ownership of this bug too.
Looks like i was removed from this bug. What do you mean by ownership of this bug? I think this bug is already resolved after i gave explanation. you mean to take maintainership of this package?
Once it is in Core, yes. I took ownership of this bug because there's nothing we can do about the file conflict until gutenprint is in Core, so I don't expect you to make any package changes as a result of this bug. Sorry -- I didn't mean to drop you from the CC list; that must have been a mistake. :-(
Parag: do you think gutenprint-cups should require gimp-print-cups for FC6? That way the filters would at least get installed, even though they aren't the gutenprint ones.
(In reply to comment #7) > Parag: do you think gutenprint-cups should require gimp-print-cups for FC6? Yes if its a parallel testing of gutenprint and gimp-print. Those filters are removed from gutenprint-cups to resolve conflicts in both packages installation. > That way the filters would at least get installed, even though they aren't the > gutenprint ones. yes. you can do that.
I am not understanding why gutenprint is not using filters from gimp-print-cups package. Did you get any further info on this issue?
Because it doesn't require the gimp-print-cups package. You need to add a 'Requires: gimp-print-cups' line to gutenprint.spec.
Fixed in next version of gutenprint so Closing this bug for now.