[Ilugc] Printer installation problem

Arun Khan knura9 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 13:36:24 IST 2011


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:48 PM, balaji sivanath
<starbala2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using arch linux, having canon LBP2900B usb printer.
>
> First installed cups but it didnt detect my printer, then tried to
> install usblp but it failed to due to conflict of cups. so removed
> cups and installed usblp.. now usblp detected my printer but it
> showing error "printer filter missing File
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt" not available: No such file or
> directory" what to do?

The error message is clear enough - the file does not exist.  Most
likely it is dependent on some package that is missing.

How did you install the package?

I am not familiar with Arch Linux but I expect it's package management
utility would highlight dependencies.

-- 
Arun Khan


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