Filing the bug (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489765) immediately produced an answer: you have to enter
gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups" in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Then lpr printing works with standard Debian packages. I think it is a bug that this is not done automatically, or at least with some warning during install. Anthony, I hope that this will work in your case. It will need some more research to find out why it worked by default with the user-compiled versions, but I think I won't be bothered. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]