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Java printing broken in Ubuntu Gutsy

I use Asaph, a lead-sheet creation program for musicians, and I discovered that since upgrading to Gutsy, printing doesn’t work. Apparently this is a common problem, detailed in this bug on Launchpad.

The (albeit ugly) workaround: in Software Sources, add deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main as a “Third Party Source.” Then downgrade to cupsys version 1.2.8-0ubuntu8.

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2 Responses to “Java printing broken in Ubuntu Gutsy”


  • Rico
    January 9th, 2008 01:03
    1

    Hi Ted,

    I have added the feisty main rep and downgraded cupssys to version 1.2.8-0ubuntu8. After this change my java apps pupup a print dialogue, but when I choose print it just goes and sit in the print que. I cannot resume it.
    When I attemp to open the printer settings it cant find the cups server.

    Any ideas of what I did wrong, or perhaps more detail on the workaround will be appreciated. I only downgraded the package called cupssys any other I should have downgraded as well?

    Regards
    Rico

  • Ted Carnahan
    January 21st, 2008 10:25
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    It may be that you need to start/restart the cups server after the upgrade. Beyond that, I’m not sure what the problem is. Sorry for the late response, I’ve been traveling abroad for the last few weeks.

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