[arch-general] cups depend on ghostscript? WAS: troubles with Brother HL-2040

[Andreas Radke]

Am Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:31 -0400
schrieb "Ryan Sims" <rwsims at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Thayer Williams
> <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <rwsims at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been
> >> running another distro and chugging along happily.  It's got a
> >> Brother HL2040 attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it
> >> around the network.
> >>
> >>  Well, I got the server is up and running so I followed the
> >> instruction in the wiki[1]  for installing the printer.
> >> Everything seems to have gone ok, the printer was detected and
> >> installed correctly, hooray. However, it doesn't print the test
> >> page (or anything else).  When I ask it to print, the printer
> >> wakes up and starts spinning, thinks for a couple seconds, and
> >> then goes back to sleep.
> >
> > Are you trying to print directly from the server, or from a remote
> > PC on the network?  Get it working locally first before worrying
> > about anything else.
> >
> > Are you running a GUI on the server? If so, what does
> > http://localhost:631/printers show for printer status?
> >
> >
> 
> Interesting, I found the problem: I had neglected to install
> ghostscript.  It seems to me like that should be an explicit
> dependency for cups; is there a scenario where you could print from
> cups without ghostscript?  I also think its interesting that cups
> didn't say anything about "gs" failing to run except in the "debug"
> log level, and the failure certainly wasn't considered fatal, even
> though it really was.
> 

File a bug please!

-Andy