gnome-cups-add crashes when installing print driver

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Count László de Almásy wrote:
> I'm using the latest ubuntu with updates, and am having problems
> trying to add a new printer with gnome-cups-manager.
> 
> I choose Add Printer, Network Printer, enter the hostname, and click
> the "Install Driver" button.  The application then crashes, saying
> "gnome-cups-add has quit unexpectedly".  I can reproduce this every
> time.
> 
> The version of gnome-cups-manager I have installed is 0.31-0ubuntu3. 
> Any ideas how to solve this problem?
> 

Hi,

i have given up using gnome-cups-manager, it has never worked reliably 
for me (crashed quite often).

As a workaround, you can use lpadmin.
This is how i set up the queue for our color laser printer, which is 
hosted on our server antsrv1 with lpd queue clj1:

# lpadmin -p clj1 -P CLP-550ps.ppd -v lpd://antsrv1/clj1 -L "Server 
room" -D "Color laserprinter" -E

HTH,
	Heinrich