How To Config Printing On C7 Installed From Live Image

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Hi All!

I’ve just done a test installation (on an external USB HD) to see how C7 works on my Acer Aspire netbook.

Apparently the live install (I used this one: CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-livecd.iso)
does not install CUPS. I’ve done “yum install cups” and got a ton of stuff installed, but it won’t let me set up a printer in the printing applet in either Gnome or MATE (I prefer Mate). Adding a printer is greyed out, and I get told there is no server running.

I thought I needed to start the printer service (cupsd???) but I can’t find the system-config-services (or whatever it’s named, if not that)
app either.

Also haven’t found a systemd config for cups, either.

I’ve tried adding /usr/sbin/cupsd to the system startup programs list, but that doesn’t seem to help either.

Obviously I’m overlooking something, and I’d appreciate a (helpful) slap upside the head, i.e., a gentl hint of where I’ve gone wrong.

thanks a lot!

Fred

5 thoughts on - How To Config Printing On C7 Installed From Live Image

  • thanks Frank! Actually I had figured that out shortly after posting, but was hung up on the subsequent problem for a while, and so didn’t post.

    the subsequent problem is that Brother’s drivers are 32-bit and if you’re using 64-bit Linux you need to install the 32-bit glibc. Duh.

    Now it’s working.

  • I have been hung up by the same glibc 32-bit/brother problem, but I don’t know how to resolve it. This is a new CentOS 7 installation. On a CentOS 6
    system, I simply installed the 32-version and the printer worked.

    But I run into a dependency/version problem that would require ever deeper downgrading of those libraries. When I try to install glibc.i686 , i get:

    Error: Package: glibc-2.17-55.el7.i686 (base)
    Requires: glibc-common = 2.17-55.el7
    Installed: glibc-common-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64 (@updates)
    glibc-common = 2.17-55.el7_0.1

    Trying to downgrade glibc-common, fails on account of other glibc version problems.

    It appears that all glibc libraries, including kernel headers, were upgraded, except for glibc.i686 (which I hadn’t installed when I set up the system) has never been upgraded.

    If anyone knows what I can do, where I could find a newer 32-bit glibc, please let me know. I can’t find the matching rpm.

  • I had no such problems, I just did “yum install glibc.i686” and voila!
    Are you sure that (1) your system is fully up to date, and (2) you haven’t installed any funky apps/libs that would be interfering here?

    Fred

  • I have got to thank you! If you could install glibc.i686. I guessed I
    could do it.

    Thinking there must be a compatible glibc.i686, I searched for mirrors and I found the needed version on a mirror, at arsc.edu. I don’t know why yum couldn’t find a similar version of the packages — both glibc and nss-softkn-freebl 32-bit — but after downloading the packages, I did a local install, and from there a bit of fooling with system-config-printer, and I’m printing.