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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:08:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5073F7A5.1010706@fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20121008T021926-626@post.gmane.org>

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On 08.10.2012 14:52, James wrote:
> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen <at> fu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> 
>> Ok - you're trying two different approaches at the same time.
>> I'd recommend you to just use the printer-drivers overlay.
> 
> Yep know doubts, I looked at too many different wiki and other
> googled resources. I could not find a simple here are the steps to
> installing "printer" overlays, compiling them, making the config
> changes and then testing via CUPS.
> 
> OK, I'll the print drivers  first.
> 
>> Normally layman should take care of the contents of 
>> /var/lib/layman/make.conf. Maybe it doesn#t work because you
>> created an empty one. You could try to simply delete it and
>> afterwards rerun layman -a printer-drivers. If that doesn't solve
>> your problem, recreate the  file with the following content:
> 
>> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" $PORTDIR_OVERLAY"
> 
>> Afterwards try layman -a printer-drivers again.
> 
> #layman -l * printer-drivers           [Git       ] 
> (git://git.o.g.o/proj/printer-drivers.git           ) * zugaina
> [Rsync     ] (rsync://gentoo.zugaina.org/zugaina-portage         )
> 
> OK it's installed. I would think emerging it is next? But that does
> not seem to work with emerge?

Sounds fine up to here. Make sure you have a line "source
/var/lib/layman/make.conf" inside your make.conf and try to emerge the
driver. It should work then.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-09 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-05 15:38 [gentoo-user] layman printer trouble Jamse
2012-10-05 18:57 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-10-05 19:39   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-10-05 21:21     ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-10-08 12:52       ` James
2012-10-09 10:08         ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen [this message]
2012-10-09 18:19           ` James
2012-10-09 18:30             ` James
2012-10-09 18:41             ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen

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