[Gambas-user] Printer not found

[Jorge Carrión]

I had same problem with Ubuntu 8.04 and I found that gambas searchs for
libcups.so and Ubuntu has libcups.so.2. So I made a simbolic link (sudo ln
-s libcups.so.2 libcups.so) to thas library and all goes fine.
Hope this helps.


2009/4/7 Doriano Blengino <doriano.blengino at ...1909...>

> CelticBhoy ha scritto:
> > I have writen a small stock prog, and want to print various reports, but
> when
> > I use the printer.begin function it does not see my printer. The printer
> > works fine in any other app I try to print from. I am using Ubuntu with
> > Gnome and have the gb, gb.db, gb.db.form, gb.form, gb.qt, and gb.qt.ext
> > modules loaded. Why wont my app find my printer ????
> >
> > ps. if I print to file it works fine.
> >
> It happened to me too, on a machine running the latest K-Ubuntu (don't
> remember the version, I don't use Ubuntu).
> There was no way to see installed printers from gambas, but every other
> program worked perfectly.
> I used the strace(1) utility to see what was happening, and discovered
> that gambas was reading a file in /etc, perhaps printcap, or similar,
> where there was no mention of installed printers. The printers was
> instead reported in another file. I renamed printcaps, or deleted it,
> and all went well: gambas started to read the correct file, probably
> because it was finding no more the erroneous one.
>
> I am sorry about not remembering things - it is not my machine. You can
> go in /etc and see which file contains the names of installed printers,
> and check that gambas reads that file. Moreover that machine was a
> Kubuntu one, not using Gnome; so things can be even more different.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Doriano Blengino
>
> "Listen twice before you speak.
> This is why we have two ears, but only one mouth."
>
>
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