I had forgotten that in my Gutsy installation, I had not yet set up my Panasonic laser printer. Okay, no big deal. But, in the KDE Printer Wizard, the option for Local printer (parallel, serial, USB) was grayed out and not selectable. Hmm says I. Why is that? In my Feisty installation, this printer is installed and working. It is connected via USB.
Okay, I checked Adept Manager and searched on guten and yup, the foomatic-db-gutenprint package was installed. So what was the problem? I noticed another package right above the installed foomatic-db-gutenprint package: cupsys-driver-gutenprint which was not installed. The description states: "This package includes a CUPS driver based on Gutenprint." As I am using cups for print control, I said "okay, let's install this." Did. Did a system shutdown. Turned on my printer and let it report "ready" then turned the PC back on and booted into Gutsy.
Went back into the Printer Wizard utility and viola! The Local printer (parallel, serial, USB) option was no longer grayed out. Setting up my laser printer was a breeze after that.
So, if you are having problems with the KDE Printer Wizard not allowing you to select the Local printer (parallel, serial, USB) option, install the cupsys-driver-gutenprint package. It did the trick for me.
Okay, I checked Adept Manager and searched on guten and yup, the foomatic-db-gutenprint package was installed. So what was the problem? I noticed another package right above the installed foomatic-db-gutenprint package: cupsys-driver-gutenprint which was not installed. The description states: "This package includes a CUPS driver based on Gutenprint." As I am using cups for print control, I said "okay, let's install this." Did. Did a system shutdown. Turned on my printer and let it report "ready" then turned the PC back on and booted into Gutsy.
Went back into the Printer Wizard utility and viola! The Local printer (parallel, serial, USB) option was no longer grayed out. Setting up my laser printer was a breeze after that.
So, if you are having problems with the KDE Printer Wizard not allowing you to select the Local printer (parallel, serial, USB) option, install the cupsys-driver-gutenprint package. It did the trick for me.
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