[ale] another CUPS issue

Jim Philips briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net
Mon Sep 4 12:38:31 EDT 2006


On Monday 04 September 2006 12:26, Jim Philips wrote:
> Well, I was hasty in thinking things were entirely fixed. Now I can connect
> to CUPS and get through all but the last step of printer setup. When I
> select the Gutenprint driver for my printer and go Next, I get a mesage
> saying:
>
> "Unable to create the Foomatic driver... Either that driver doesn't exist
> or you don't have the required permissions to perform that operation."
>
> The driver is definitely installed, along with Foomatic. And I'm running
> print config in administrator mode. So, there is no higher privilege
> available. I'm boxed in again.

Once again, it hit me after I sent the e-mail. I was missing the CUPS 
interface o the Gutenprint drivers. I installed that and now everything 
works.



More information about the Ale mailing list