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Re: How to configure a printer on Guix System
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Christophe Pisteur |
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Re: How to configure a printer on Guix System |
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Sat, 16 May 2020 15:17:15 +0200 |
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Le vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 17:33 +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit :
> Christophe,
>
> Christophe Pisteur 写道:
> > Since now, I installed the following packages: cups,
> > cups-filters,
> > fomatics-filters.
> > When I launch http: // localhost: 631 / in my browser
>
> So the important thing to (un)learn here is that installing Guix
> packages will never start random software in the background. This
> is by design.
>
> (Guix) System software is started by services that are part of
> your OPERATING-SYSTEM. Here's part of my laptop's CUPS
> configuration:
>
> (use-service-modules ···
> cups
> ···)
> (operating-system
> (services
> (cons* ···
> (service cups-service-type
> (cups-configuration
> (extensions
> (list hplip-minimal
> ;; Required to display printer options,
> ;; even with IPP Everywhere everywhere.
> cups-filters
> ;; Other possible legacy drivers:
> ;; escpr foo2zjs foomatic-filters
> ;; hplip-minimal splix
> ))
> (server-name host-name)
> (host-name-lookups #t)
> (web-interface? #t)
> (default-paper-size "A4")
> ;; You get the idea.
> ···))
> ···
> %base-services-or-whatever)))
Thank you for the explanation and for sharing this configuration. My
problem is that I still don't understand guix well enough: I don't know
in which file to write this configuration of cups (name and path), nor
with what tool to define it (nano, terminal, etc.).
Perhaps I do not have enough computer background to use guix to date.
It does not matter, I will eventually learn over time, not to mention
that some functions will be automated with the evolution of the
project, as is the case for the graphic installation.
Christophe
> Adapt & add this to your system, run ‘sudo guix system
> reconfigure’, and you should be able to ‘herd start cups’ if it
> isn't automatically. It will certainly be started at boot.
>
> You should probably uninstall cups and the filter packages since
> they don't do what you thought they did, unless you want to keep
> them available in $PATH.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R