Printing under Wine - Mission Impossible? (solved)

[Patrick Tighe]

So with this setup, you get good output from your printers?  Just wondering
if I should take the time to compile my own copy.

Pat


                                                                                                                               
                    "Dan Fer"                                                                                                  
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I finally compiled latest 20021031 tar.gz myself with cups development deb
package installed and finally got cups to work. I also send a note to the
daily deb maitainer to ask him and "why not" suggest him to include this
feature. Hopes he does :)

-daniel
http://www.debian-gnu.com




>From: Duane Clark <dclark at akamail.com>
>To: wine-users at winehq.com
>Subject: Re: Printing under Wine - Mission Impossible?
>Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:18:30 -0800
>
>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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