How to access CUPS - printer setup [Solved]

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 14:37:43

I installed CUPS and hplip. Hplip doesn't open for some reason and when I go to http://localhost:631/ it won't open the site to configure my printer. I have installed cups.

What else is needed?

Last edited by vinoman2 (2009-05-31 18:08:13)

byte · 2009-05-31 14:40:17

Starting CUPS, for example: /etc/rc.d/cups start
What's the error you get when you start 'hp-toolbox' from a terminal?

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 15:05:21

byte wrote:

Starting CUPS, for example: /etc/rc.d/cups start
What's the error you get when you start 'hp-toolbox' from a terminal?

I get this:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.4b)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-toolbox requires GUI support. Exiting.
[davek@myhost ~]$

dmartins · 2009-05-31 15:07:25

Optional Deps : cups: for printing support
dbus-python: for dbus support
sane: for scanner support
portmap: for network support
pyqt4: for running hp-toolbox

pacman would have printed this out when you installed hplip

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 15:12:07

I have cups installed already, so should I install:

# pacman -S dbus-python sane portmap pyqt4

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 16:19:19

I get this now:

[davek@myhost ~]$ hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.4b)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: Reportlab not installed. Fax coverpages disabled.
warning: Please install version 2.0+ of Reportlab for coverpage support.

I still can't get to localhost:631

What else to I need to do? Printer setup should be more straightforward than this. No other distro has been this convoluted to set up. I know you don't want to hear this but maybe on the next version Arch can improve on this printer setup.

Last edited by vinoman2 (2009-05-31 16:20:59)

byte · 2009-05-31 16:30:21

If you can't get to http://localhost:631 you didn't start CUPS, neither manually nor by using the DAEMONS array in rc.conf.

As for hp-toolbox: Which HP printer do you have and how is it connected? You have added your user to the 'lp' group, right?

P.S.: That's pretty "straightforward" to me -- the basics, no fancy frontends, it just works(tm).

Last edited by byte (2009-05-31 16:33:14)

bapt_ch · 2009-05-31 17:00:04

byte wrote:

you didn't start CUPS, neither manually nor by using the DAEMONS array in rc.conf. [...]
You have added your user to the 'lp' group, right?

What's the message when you start cups ?

("Done" or "failed")

It' s the most important.

Last edited by bapt_ch (2009-05-31 17:02:22)

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 17:46:04

bapt_ch wrote:

byte wrote:
you didn't start CUPS, neither manually nor by using the DAEMONS array in rc.conf. [...]
You have added your user to the 'lp' group, right?
What's the message when you start cups ?
("Done" or "failed")
It' s the most important.

I added @cups to rc.conf file, where is the groups file?

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 17:49:38

byte wrote:

If you can't get to http://localhost:631 you didn't start CUPS, neither manually nor by using the DAEMONS array in rc.conf.
As for hp-toolbox: Which HP printer do you have and how is it connected? You have added your user to the 'lp' group, right?
P.S.: That's pretty "straightforward" to me -- the basics, no fancy frontends, it just works(tm).

What's the command to get to lp group?

bapt_ch · 2009-05-31 17:51:03

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Use … ent#Groups

gpasswd -a <username> <group>

lp is the group for printer.

After that, restart cups in a term with : /etc/rc.d/cups restart. And check the result.

Last edited by bapt_ch (2009-05-31 17:54:27)

vinoman2 · 2009-05-31 18:07:43

Was able to set up in localhost:631

The printer is working

Chokkan · 2009-06-01 00:07:44

The two printers I have set up on different boxes were very hassle free. A very pleasant surprise.

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How to access CUPS - printer setup [Solved]

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