Where does a printer filter go?

[Florian Diesch]

Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org> wrote:

> I was too lazy to dig up the cd's that came with the printers and
> reinstall them, so I looked in my /etc/cups directory from my old
> debian unstable system and copied the files that looked like they
> described my printers.  

As it's a different system with different programs and versions chances
are that you'll spend the time you saved here by debugging you
configuration.


> The networked Brother seems to be working fine, but the Samsung
> attached to the parallel port is complaining:
>
>   Filter "ppmtospl2" for printer "lp1" not available: No such file or
> directory
>
> The only ppmtosp12 I can find on my old drive is in the
> /etc/cups/filter directory, which I did copy.  (And subsequently
> restarted cupsys.)
>
> So where is Ubuntu Dapper looking for it and not finding it?

With
 dpkg -L cupsys
you see the files included in package cupsys.
 dpkg -L cupsys | grep filter/
gets you everything with 'filter/' in its path. You see that the filters
dir is /usr/lib/cups/filter/


   Florian
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