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Vamp898

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Cannot add any Network Printer using GNOME Printer Applet

Hi there,

first of all, the following packages are installed

* cups
* cups-filters
* foomatic-db
* foomatic-db-nonfree
* gutenprint

And the CUPS Daemon is started of course.

Using the Web-Interface on localhost:631 i can add printers fine and they mostly seem to work.

But i can not add Printers using the GNOME Control Center. It finds all printers and let me select them, but as soon i click on add, i get an popup "Printer could not be added", thats all.

Running on the command line i get following

(gnome-control-center:5389): printers-cc-panel-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing was not provided by any .service files

Before this i had the same with PackageKit, but it was solved after installing PackageKit. So in my personal oppinion, PackageKit should be a dependency (not optional) as the Printer GUI does not work at all if there is no PackageKit installed.

On some printers i dont get the error pointed above, on some printers GNOME-Shell just freezes reproducable.

Last edited by Vamp898 (2014-10-02 06:25:50)

Vamp898

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Re: Cannot add any Network Printer using GNOME Printer Applet

system-config-printer have also to be installed.

Maybe im getting something wrong, but in my oppinion, system-config-printer and packagekit have to be dependencies of the gnome-control-center package (or some sub-package) as printing is defenetly not working without those two