[Ilugc] printer not being detected in fedora 15
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (kenneth gonsalves)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:20:43 +0530
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 07/22/2011 11:15 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 10:29 +0530, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote:
And the cups-pk-helper is an helper apps to configure printer. if
it
is broken, we can use the "system-config-printer" utility to
configure
printer. It can be installed from the repository. And it will not
broke the system.
[root at xlquest lawgon]# system-config-printer
Can you run this as a non-root user and check?
problem solved - cups not installed. 15 has a choice of desktop,
developer or webserver for installation. I chose developer not realising
that in its zeal to prevent global warming, Redhat does not encourage
developers to use printers. Apparently developers are not expected to
use office or most of the system-config utilities also. Thanks guys for
your help. (did someone say that this list is unfriendly?)
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