[Wine] Re: How can one get printing via cups to work with wine?
Duane Clark
dclark at akamail.com
Sat Sep 16 13:16:04 CDT 2006
Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> How can one get printing via cups to work with wine?
>
> According to http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index
> "3.3.4. Printers -- Wine can interact directly with the CUPS
> printing system to find the printers available on your system.
> Configuring printers with Wine is as simple as making sure your
> CUPS configuration works."
>
> But regrettably, this is not proving to be true.
>
> Printing via cups works with all of my Linux applications.
> But when I try to print from any windows application started
> via wine (even notepad.exe), I see this error message:
>
> "Cannot print" ... and ... "No printers installed."
>
> That is not true. Printers are installed and work via cups.
>
> So, what needs to be done to get wine to see cups?
Did you compile Wine yourself? If so, you need to make sure you have the
equivalent of cups-devel (that is, the CUPS header files) installed.
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