Re: [Inkscape-devel] Debian package of Inkscape and printing with CUPS

Hello all,

Does anyone have Inkscape printing working on Etch, without resorting to lpr or another old-school method?

I believe the problem is that the cupsys-bsd package, which provides the lpr interface to CUPS for backwards compatibility, is only a 'suggested' package for cupsys, not a dependency:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/cupsys

Also, cupsys-bsd is not a dependency of the Inkscape package:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/inkscape

Therefore it is possible to install both Inkscape and CUPS on Debian, without the cupsys-bsd package that enables them to work together. We'll add cupsys-bsd to 64 Studio and see if Inkscape printing will then work out of the box.

Cheers!

Daniel