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eazy

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2008-01-20

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where's system-config-printer..?!

Hey everybody,
  I just installed system-config-printer, but I can't find any way to run it. This is the package info:

~:$ y -Ql system-config-printer
system-config-printer /usr/
system-config-printer /usr/lib/
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__init__.py
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/cupshelpers.py
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/openprinting.py
system-config-printer /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/ppds.py
system-config-printer /usr/share/
system-config-printer /usr/share/system-config-printer/
system-config-printer /usr/share/system-config-printer/config.py
system-config-printer /usr/share/system-config-printer/debug.py
system-config-printer /usr/share/system-config-printer/smburi.py

~:$ y -Qi system-config-printer
Nome           : system-config-printer
Versione       : 1.1.2-1
URL            : http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/system-config-printer/
Licenze        : GPL  
Gruppi         : Nessuno
Fornisce       : Nessuno
Dipende da     : pycups  pyxml  dbus-python  
Dip. opzionali : Nessuno
Richiesto da   : Nessuno
Conflitti con  : Nessuno
Sostituisce    : Nessuno
Kb richiesti   : 100,00 K
Autore         : Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org>
Architettura   : x86_64
Creato il      : ven 30 gen 2009 08:28:30 CET
Installato il  : ven 30 gen 2009 12:16:37 CET
Motivo         : Installato esplicitamente
Script install : No
Descrizione    : Pygtk CUPS Configuration

How am I supposed to run it?

thx!

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proxima_centauri

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

It's been broken for me too for a couple of days. I've been using gnome-cups-manager in the meantime

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

Yeah, it's broken, and has been since at least 1.1.1-1.

Pierre

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Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

Install system-config-printer-gnome or kdeutils/kdeadmin, which contains system-config-printer-kde.

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eazy

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

There is no system-config-printer-gnome.. and I am not using [testing]

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eazy

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2008-01-20

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

There is system-config-printer-gnome in AUR but I can't find it.. maybe because I am running 64bit and the PKGBUILD is for 32bit. I didn't check.

Anyway here's a PKGBUILD I found for system-config-printer-gnome... someone may find it useful.

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proxima_centauri

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

I could be wrong, but isn't that the exact same thing as system-config-printer in the repos?

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eazy

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From: London, UK

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

No, because the one on the repos doesn't have any executable file associated with it. Just library files, it seems. See the file listing above...
I suppose system-config-printer is the "core" package, while *-gnome and *-kde provide the frontend. And there seems to be no frontend in the repos.

The PKGBUILD for system-config-printer-gnome I posted starts and seems to work, but I don't have any printers here to test it.

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proxima_centauri

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

Oh, ok. Got you.
But there never used to be any need for a 'frontend', it was a complete package just worked fine last week.
Anyone have any idea why upgrades stopped providing an executable of sorts?

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dahankzter

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Registered: 2009-03-12

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Re: where's system-config-printer..?!

Hmmm...

It would be nice to have it free of both gnome and kde.

Wasn't that how it used to work?
There was even a text-only ui i think if you had no x.