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.PPDs in m2300w package come gzipped and so are not detected by the KDE printer setup

Bug #374747 reported by Muzer
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Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

Binary package hint: m2300w

The simple solution is to gunzip them. I did this and it worked flawlessly. Simply repackage the .deb so the .PPD files are not gzipped and all will be well.

As it stands, in the Kubuntu printer setup, the printers covered by the driver (Konica Minolta Magicolour 2300W and 2400W) do not show up on the screen that allows you to choose which printer you have.

Kubuntu 9.04

m2300w:
  Installed: 0.51-0ubuntu7

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

AFAIK KDE in current Kubuntu uses a printer setup tool based on system-config-printer. This tool should ask CUPS for what drivers or PPDs are available. Cups supplies to the printer setup tool the same information as "lpinfo -m" does on the command line. As CUPS supports gzipped PPD files it lists also the PPDs from the m2300w package:

till@till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$ lpinfo -m | grep 2[34]00W
lsb/usr/m2300w/magicolor_2300W-m2300w.ppd.gz Minolta magicolor 2300W Foomatic/m2300w (recommended)
lsb/usr/m2300w/magicolor_2400W-m2400w.ppd.gz Minolta magicolor 2400W Foomatic/m2400w (recommended)
till@till-laptop:~/ghostscript/gpl/testfiles$

If KDE's system-config-printer does not show them it is a bug of KDE's system-config-printer.

affects: m2300w (Ubuntu) → system-config-printer-kde (Ubuntu)
Changed in system-config-printer-kde (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Jonathan Riddell (jr)
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Muzer (muzerakascooby) wrote :

Weirdly, I can't seem to reproduce the bug (by re-gzipping it). Maybe it's in a cache somewhere now, but I'm positive it wasn't there before.

Also, there are a lot of other gzipped drivers (480 on my count, compared to 880 non-gzipped, on a standard installation), so who knows? Maybe I was mistaken, though I would have made the same mistake twice in that case (I've had two Kubuntu installations of 9.04 because I broke one, both of which I had that problem in), which I don't think I've done before.

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

system-config-printer-kde has moved into the kdeadmin source package.

affects: system-config-printer-kde (Ubuntu) → kdeadmin (Ubuntu)
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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

Muzer,
This is an old bug and Ubuntu 9.04 is no longer supported.
Is this still an issue in a recent Kubuntu?

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Muzer (muzerakascooby) wrote :

Afraid I don't use Kubuntu any more so can't comment. If anyone wants to check for sure, simply install the m2300w package and see if the Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300W/2400W printers are listed in the printer setup, on the screen with the long list of printer manufacturers.

I do, however, suspect it was something else causing the problem, such as me not restarting CUPS after installing the drivers (perhaps that should be in the installation script for m2300w?). I really don't know; I'm just speculating at this point as I don't really know for sure how CUPS does this.

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