Printing under Wine - Mission Impossible?

[Rick Romero]

Do you have the cups-devel package installed?  

I use Mandrake, but historically, if I was missing the devel package,
printing wouldn't work after a CVS compile.

Rick


On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:06, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> For the record I have this exact same problem and have
> had it for a few months now. Printing used to work
> before I went to RedHat 8.0. The wine I use is from
> CVS.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> --- Patrick Tighe <ptighe at detroit.faurecia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> >      I've gotten CUPS support working quite easily
> > with the latest Suse
> > RPM, just an FYI.  I however am having a different
> > problem.  I can't
> > actually print.  The print job spools, but it isn't
> > what I'm expecting.
> > I've got 3 printers, an hp5, without PS support (not
> > surprised this fails),
> > an HP 4500N, which locks up upon receiving the print
> > job, and an HP 8150GN,
> > which does nothing.  Does anyone have any experience
> > with this setup?  All
> > three printers work fine for other printing
> > applications, i.e. OpenOffice,
> > or printing text files.  Thanks for any responses
> > and help.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Patrick Tighe
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dan Fer wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been trying to print under apps running with
> > wine for a while.
> > >
> > > In wine docs it says wine automatically detect
> > CUPS printer. Well, I have
> > > CUPS installed, everything prints great, except
> > apps running under wine,
> > > which say that no printers are installed.
> > >
> > > CUPS version installed. Debian woody version -
> > 1.1.14.3
> > > Wine version installed. Prepackaged Deb 20021013.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me and explain how can I truly
> > print right now under
> > Wine
> > > (using cups or not, wine docs are not very
> > trustfull. (I would thank a
> > lot
> > > if the help would be detailed).
> > 
> > 
> > Currently, Wine has to be compiled with support for
> > whatever printing
> > system you have. Hopefully someday that will change.
> > In the meantime,
> > that means that if the repackaged Deb 20021013 was
> > not compiled with
> > CUPS support, then the CUPS printing likely will not
> > work.
> > 
> > So I guess, you could try to find out whether that
> > package has CUPS
> > support, or try to find another package that has it.
> > Or just get source
> > and compile (be sure to uninstall the version you
> > have first). Yes that
> > is a little more difficult to figure out the first
> > time, but it really
> > is not as hard as it first appears (in my opinion).
> > And once you have
> > done it once, it is very easy anytime thereafter.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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