printing-3.2 for porteus 3.2

[francois]

@Ed

No need for printing-lite modules with 07-printing.xzm

http://localhost:631/admin/
could be used instead of
http://localhost:631/printers/

@blaze

Thanks for the tip for the menu change of the cups application.

[Ed_P]

Open /usr/share/applications/cups.desktop with mousepad

find

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Exec=/usr/bin/xdg-open http://localhost:631/

replace with

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Exec=/usr/bin/xdg-open http://localhost:631/printers/

save changes.

At the start menu of Porteus Desktop Environment open 'Manage Printing' and check url in your browser.

I have made the changes and they work. I would now like to make a backup of them but for some reason it isn't working, even with the script running as root.

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mkdir -p /tmp/mod

# copy modified files

cp -a --parents    /usr/share/applications/Manage*Printing        /tmp/mod/
cp -a --parents    /usr/share/applications/Print*Settings         /tmp/mod/

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guest@porteus:~$ ./mkmodchanges.sh
Enter root's password 
Password: 

cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/applications/Manage*Printing': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/applications/Print*Settings': No such file or directory

[brokenman]

It is best to get into the habit of using "" around your paths.

[Ed_P]

It is best to get into the habit of using "" around your paths.

Ok. Thanks brokenman..

The solution to my problem ended up being my guessing at the name of the file.

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guest@porteus:~$ mkdir /tmp/mod/
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a --parents   "/usr/share/applications/Manage*Printing"       "/tmp/mod/"
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/applications/Manage*Printing': No such file or directory
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a --parents   /usr/share/applications/cup*       /tmp/mod/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /tmp/mod/usr/share/applications/
cups.desktop
guest@porteus:~$ 

Do not understand why the file name shown in Nemo could not be found in Terminal.

[francois]

New version of printing module has been released. See in first post for the download. Instructions have been upgraded.

@jack:
Simple scan should work for you now.

@kocickamia:
I am not forgetting you. As soon as I get the printer module troubleshooted for the 64bit edition, you will get your 32bit copy.

Thanks for testing with your scanners or printers.

[francois]

Blazed proposed to upgrade simple-scan:
https://pkgs.org/slackware-14.2/johanne ... c.txz.html

It will be included int the next revision of the module.

[Ed_P]

New version of printing module has been released. See in first post for the download. Instructions have been upgraded.

It appears to be working with my HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer when using FireFox 50.0b5 on my 64-bit Cinnamon system.

Why is it 50MB larger than the normal 07-printing.xzm module, which also works on my system?

Also why no note at the bottom of the 1st post indicating it has been updated.

[brokenman]

Good job Francois. Some questions/observations.

1)
You can remove the following:
GConf-3.2.6-x86_64-3
gtk+3-3.18.9-x86_64-1

These packages are in all desktops by default.

2)
libxfce4ui-4.12.1-x86_64-2
libxfce4util-4.12.1-x86_64-2
qt3-3.3.8b-x86_64-5_slonly (seems very old)
Why are these packages present?

[francois]

@Ed:
How is the scanner function doing.

I realized that the size was kind of overweight too. But I wanted to put more in there than not enough.

@brokenman:
I will remove all revise these packages which seem too old and remove the packages as they are in excess.

Maybe the gimp-solibs are not necessary too.

Thanks for testing and for commenting.

[Blaze]

I have done my version of printing-3.2 module for porteus 3.2 x86_64

07-printing-x86_64.xzm

glade3 does not need and probably gimp-solibs too.

Double packages

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colord, cups, dbus-python, garcon, gd-2.2.1, libgphoto2-2.5.10, libgusb-0.2.9, libieee1284-0.2.11, poppler-0.45.0, pycairo-1.10.0, pygtk-2.24.0, python-2.7.11, sane-1.0.25, v4l-utils-1.10.0

I think that the module requires a more detailed audit

Content:

PyQt5-5.7-x86_64-1alien.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/PyQt#


brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.amd64.deb
brscan4-0.4.2-1.amd64.deb
brscan3-0.2.11-5.amd64.deb
brscan2-0.2.5-1.amd64.deb
brscan-0.2.4-0.amd64.deb
http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux ... tml#brscan


cups-bjnp-1.2-x86_64-1_slonly.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/cups-bjnp


cups-filters-1.9.0-x86_64-2.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/cups-filters


exo-0.10.7-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/exo


foomatic-filters-4.0.17-x86_64-1.txz
https://www.openprinting.org/download/foomatic/
+ foomatic-filters.SlackBuild
https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackwar ... c-filters/


ghostscript-9.19-x86_64-2.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/ghostscript


ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11-noarch-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/ghostscript-fonts-std


gutenprint-5.2.11-x86_64-2.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/gutenprint


hplip-3.16.8-x86_64-1dj.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/hplip


libnl-1.1.4-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/libnl


libsane-dsseries-1.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libsane-dsseries/ = http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf ... x86_64.rpm


net-snmp-5.7.3-x86_64-3.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/net-snmp


notify-python-0.1.1-x86_64-5.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/notify-python


pycups-1.9.73-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/pycups


pycurl-7.43.0-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/pycurl


pygobject-2.28.6-x86_64-2.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/pygobject


qpdf-6.0.0-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/qpdf


scangearmp2_3.20-1_amd64.deb
http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/010000690 ... deb.tar.gz


simple-scan-3.20.0-x86_64-1jsc.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/simple-scan


sip-4.18-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/sip


system-config-printer-1.3.13-x86_64-2.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/system-config-printer


xsane-0.999-x86_64-1.txz
https://pkgs.org/search/xsane

Plus

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chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups-browsed
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.snmpd
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups

[Ed_P]

@Ed:
How is the scanner function doing.

It appears to be working. Nice job francois.

I have done my version of printing-3.2 module for porteus 3.2 x86_64

07-printing-x86_64.xzm

Your 52MB module appears to be working also Blaze. But somehow it seems to have caused my 3.2rc5 Cinammon system to loose it's xterminal link in the taskbar.

[francois]

@blaze

What do you mean? You have some suggestions for changes. Personally, I got most packages from usm.

I will be home from France back to Canada today. The printers are there. I will be more at ease to test things, and to compare our reclaim jobs.

I do not mind that we go for your version.

[Blaze]

francois, I mean unnecessary (excessive) dependencies. Some packages does not need. USM can grab extra packages but they are not required.

But somehow it seems to have caused my 3.2rc5 Cinammon system to loose it's xterminal link in the taskbar.

I don't repeat this with my 07-printing-x86_64.xzm module in Always Fresh mode.

[francois]

You have done that within xfce environment?

[Blaze]

Cinnamon environment