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