[sle-beta] Printing fails

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mardi 19 décembre 2017 à 14:30 +0100, Johannes Meixner a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> On Dec 18 19:32 Nick te Lindert | Creative ICT wrote (excerpt):
> > 
> > Printing in beta 4 fails with the following error:
> > 
> > Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Although pdftops is installed in:/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
> 
> there are two kind of 'pdftops':
> 
> The filter for CUPS /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops from the
> cups-filters RPM (separated software - not part of CUPS)
> which is a wrapper that calls the actual /usr/bin/pdftops
> from the poppler-tools RPM.
> 
> I assume /usr/bin/pdftops from the poppler-tools RPM is missing.
> 
> FYI: cups-filters.spec contains
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> # /usr/bin/pdftops (provided by poppler-tools)
> # is needed (but not required for non-PostScript printers)
> # to print PDFs on PostScript printers because in this case
> # the CUPS filter chain is:
> #  /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf
> #  /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
> #  where /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops calls /usr/bin/pdftops
> #  /usr/lib/cups/backend/...
> # see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868148
> Recommends:     poppler-tools
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Nick te Lindert,
> I guess in your case recommended RPMs were not installed.

poppler-tools is not part of SLE15 medias. 

We need a bug report to add it.

Thanks !

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Frederic Crozat
Enterprise Desktop Release Manager
SUSE