On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 05/10/15 18:48, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >I made the /var/spool/lpd directory manually, since a search of Debian
> >packages didn't find any package that includes it as part of its
> >infrastructure.
>
> I think you will find it is from the 'lpr' package

Which I do not have installed. Nor lprng. Instead, I have cups-bsd.
Each of them privides its own /usr/bin/lpr file.

Online I'm told the way to specify my printer is to use the -S option on
lpr and give it an IP number, but the man page for lpr does not have
that option. Presumably cups-bsd, which is what I have installed, does
not have that option. So presumably it's time to uninstall cups and all
its relativees and relations and install lpr.

Then see if this is the right /usr/bin/lpr.

-- hendrik



>
> Rowland
>
> > I still think that something's missing, (possibly
> >something that puts files into this spool queue) but now the package
> >hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb that I downloaded from Brother's website
> >installs without problem.
> >
> >I still don't know how to submit any file to be printed. Presumably it
> >has to be a .ps or .pdf, since that's what the printer can handle
> >natively.
> >
> >But man lpr tells me to specify a destination I have no idea what to
> >specify here to identify the printer.
> >
> > From the man page for lpr, I get the impression that lpr is part of
> >CUPS. Is that really correct? Wasn't there an lpr command long ago
> >that wasn't part of CUPS? It seems I remember using something like
> >it in the days of Unix in the 1970's.
> >
> >-- hendrik
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:35:25PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >>On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:02:30PM +0200, Riccardo Boninsegna wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
> >>>>Obtaining a driver from Brother's support site as a .deb file, I tried to install it with dpkg:
> >>>>
> >>>>root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
> >>>As the name says, that's an LPR driver.
> >>>
> >>>Brother does not make actual drivers for CUPS, only ones for LPR plus
> >>>a hack to make LPR drivers work in CUPS!
> >>I'd be delighted woth using lpr. But even man lpr tells me about
> >>CUPS. Has man lpr been suborned by CUPS?
> >>
> >>>1: If you're using an i386 system, you're good to go; if you're using
> >>>amd64, enable 32 bit compatibility with (as superuser) `dpkg
> >>>--add-architecture i386 && aptitude update && aptitude install
> >>>libstdc++6:i386`; if you're using any other architecture, give up!
> >>I have an i386 system. But as I mentioned, using dpkg to
> >>install the lpr driver failed:
> >>
> >>root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
> >>Selecting previously unselected package hl3170cdwlpr.
> >>(Reading database ... 118096 files and directories currently installed.)
> >>Preparing to unpack hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb ...
> >>Unpacking hl3170cdwlpr (1.1.2-1) ...
> >>Setting up hl3170cdwlpr (1.1.2-1) ...
> >>mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
> >>chown: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
> >>chgrp: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
> >>chmod: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
> >>root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver#
> >>
> >>So until I get the lpr level working, it won't help much to install the
> >>lpr compatiility for UPS.
> >>
> >>Or is the CUPS lpr compatibility etting in my way with installing an lpr
> >>driver?
> >>
> >>>2: Download both drivers from
> >>>http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl3170cdw_all&os=128
> >>>3: Install "cups-daemon" (the actual print server) and "cups-bsd"
> >>>(backwards compatibility with LPR command line tools)
> >>These are already installed, presumably with the default iinstall of
> >>devuan alpha 2.
> >>
> >>>4: Make sure your printer is connected and ready, install the LPR driver
> >>How to I "connect" a network printer that communicates over wifi?
> >>And this is the step that failed.
> >>
> >>>5: Install the CUPS driver
> >>>6: If all went fine, you should have the printer already configured
> >>>(you may want to visit localhost:631 with a browser to set paper size,
> >>>etc)!
> >>-- hendrik
> >>
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