gnome-cups-add crashes when installing print driver

[Count László de Almásy]

Thanks, I was able to get it going with lpadmin instead.

On 2/9/06, Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> 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
>
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