I just upgraded to Slackware 12.2 and my printer is not working. The CUPS webpage for the printer says:

I went into package tool and for some reason Gutenprint 5.0.1 and 5.2.2 were both in there. So I nuked everything (removed cups package and both gutenprint ones) and then reinstalled the cups (1.3.9) and gutenprint (5.2.2) packages from the slackware website. It still gave me the same message, so I ran locate gutenprint and it shows results of both 5.0.1 and 5.2.2.

How do I get rid of the 5.0.1 files safely, or tell it that I want to use the 5.2.2 version?

The locate database is rebuilt only once a day (at 04:40 to be precise) so it is likely that right after you removed gutenprint, it would still show up in the "locate" results.

I have no idea what causes your actual problem, but you could look for a recent version of the PPD file for your printer on the manufacturer's web site.

Eric

I should've mentioned that I updated the database before searching...the files are still there, I verified.

The Lexmark website has rpm'ed drivers for it, but none for slackware...I'll try extracting the rpm and see if I can find a ppd in there.

FWIW, it's a Lexmark E240n

Hrm, can't find a ppd file hidden in there anywhere...seems that it's a binary printer insallation for Redhat/SuSE

Ok, I got it working. After much googling and reading the gutenprint manual, I figured out that I had gutenprint installed in /usr/lib and also /usr/local/lib

When I did the removepkg, it was only uninstalling the /usr/lib ones. So what I did was removed the cups/gutenprint packages, and then deleted all of the libgutenprint* files in /usr/local/lib and any other gutenprint directories I could still find

Then I re-installed cups and gutenprint packages and re-added my printer

Victory!