On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:20:19 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> CORRECTION: I just found hp-toolbox, which has a 'Supplies' tab showing > the installed cartridges and should have the ink levels. But it does There's also hp-levels, but on this printer (Photosmart 1218), it tells me I have approximately 0% of ink. I *hope* I have more than that. Actually, the other utility I tried (hp-info) gave a lot of detailed info about the printer, and tells me that the tri-color cartridge is running low on ink, which I believe, based on prior teting (photos and the CUPS printer test page, which prints all nice colors save for cyan). Previously, I printed a nice color picture taken from Picn*x 15, very nice quality, even given that the printer was low on ink (used gimp). But after installing hplip from the etch repositories (there were issues with the source tarball, so I deleted that install) and running the toolbox tells me that there are no supported printers. It asks me to run the CUPS administrator, which I did, only to find out that "foomatic-rip" is missing! And it was *just there*! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate foomatic-rip /usr/bin/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/lib/foomatic-rip /usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.gz rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209590 2006-07-12 17:21 /usr/bin/foomatic-rip ls: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-07-29 21:19 /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic-rip -> ../../../bin/foomatic-rip lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-07-29 21:19 /usr/lib/ppr/lib/foomatic-rip -> ../../../bin/foomatic-rip -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3063 2006-07-12 17:21 /usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.gz OK, so it's missing in 3 out of 4 places. Is it safe to simply copy the file (or symlink it) from /usr/bin to /usr/lib/cups/filter? I can't (easily) tell offhand what made the file go away. ;( Also, the cups administrator is tending to freeze midway through the setup :(. > Marc Shapiro -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
