
Common Linux Problems
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I can’t change settings in | You need to have administrator privileges to be able to affect |
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the configuration tool. | global settings. |
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I am using the KDE | Maybe you do not have the GTK libraries installed. These |
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desktop but the | usually come with most Linux distributions, but you may have |
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configuration tool and LLPR | to install them manually. Refer to your distribution’s |
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won’t start. | installation manual for more details about installing additional |
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I just installed this | Some versions of the KDE or GNOME desktop environments |
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package but can’t find | may require that you restart your session for the changes to |
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entries in the KDE/Gnome | take effect. |
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menus. |
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I get a “Some options are | Some printers have conflicting settings, meaning that some |
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not selected” error | settings for two options can’t be selected at the same time. |
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message while editing the | When you change a setting and the Printer Package detects |
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printer settings. | such a conflict, the conflicting option is changed to a “No |
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| Choice” value, and you have to choose an option that does |
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| not conflict before being able to submit the changes. |
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I can’t make a printer the | In some conditions, it may not be possible to change the |
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system default. | default queue. This happens with some variants of LPRng, |
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| especially on recent RedHat systems that use the “printconf” |
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| database of queues. |
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| When using printconf, the /etc/printcap file is automatically |
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| refreshed from the database of printers managed by the | 6 |
| system (usually through the “printtool” command), and the | |
| queues in /etc/printcap.local are appended to the resulting | |
| file. Since the default queue in LPRng is defined as the first |
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| queue in /etc/printcap, it is not possible for the Linux Printer |
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| Package to change the default when some queues have |
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| otherwise been defined using printtool. |
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| LPD systems identify the default queue as the one named “lp”. |
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| Thus, if there is already a queue by this name, and if it |
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| doesn’t have any alias, you won’t be able to change the |
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| default. To work around this, you can either delete the queue |
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| or rename it by manually editing the /etc/printcap file. |
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The | The |
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work correctly for some of | PostScript data that is being sent to the printing system. |
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my documents. | However, such |
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| achieved if the PostScript data conforms to the Adobe |
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| Document Structuting Conventions. Problems may arise when |
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| using |
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| the document being printed isn’t compliant. |
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