[ILUG-BOM] Debian trends and future distros.

[പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen എ|A]

2007/1/27, Rony <ronbillypop at yahoo.co.uk>:
> Gnome in Etch is a bit buggy. Its printer tool allows you to select and
> choose printers but at the final 'Apply' button, the entire process
> vanishes into thin air. You are back to square 1.

I faced the same problem when tried to install a WIndows Printer Share
and it seemed to be caused by missing smbclient package. After
installing that it was able to configure it correctly.

I doubt the problem may be because of missing necessary packages, but
not showing any error message is not helpful at all.

> The best way to setup
> printers in _any_ linux distro is to ensure that CUPS is running and use
> a web browser and type localhost:631 in the address bar. 631 is the CUPS
> port for printing. I

It failed to get a printer working for me but hp-setup configured the
printer correctly. If you have an HP printer you can install hplip and
hpijs packages and then run hp-setup to automatically configure your
printer (it detects the network printer automatically)

But one of my colleague had opposite result, he had a USB printer and
hp-setup failed to configure it correctly but localhost:631 configured
it correctly.

SO try both of these if you got an HP printer, local printer try cups
first and network printer try hp-setup.

Your mileage may vary.

> But Gnome in etch packs in some more packages and utilities compared to
> Ubuntu 6.10. It has a separate CD burning utility ( cannot recall its
> name) just like K3B in KDE.

brasero (not recommended - it failed me before) and GNOME Baker (it
has improved much), K3B rocks!!

Since my college days till now it has failed only twice, one while
writing over a network (has done that so many times) and another
because the drive was not working properly.

Cheers
Praveen
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