RE: [TCLUG:7098] Need help with RedHat's printtool

["Schlough, Mark (NM IT)" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

Note:

If this is a stock RH 6.0 install, you should upgrade ghostscript (and
ghostscript fonts) to 5.50

I found that there are some problems with the stock ghostscript RPMS.  This
may be contributing to your problem.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sandipan Panigrahi [SMTP:pani@frontiernet.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:14 AM
> To:	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:7098] Need help with RedHat's printtool
> 
> printtool is just a tcl script. To get the list of the devices it looks
> up :
> /usr/bin/gs -help.
> If the output of that command doesnot show any "Available devices" it
> will give you that find_gs error.
> 
> Run the above and see if you can see any devices listed at all. If you 
> do not then it will point to a problem with your ghostscript 
> installation. If it does then I am not sure what could be going wrong.
> 
> You could try running it from the control-panel instead of by itself. 
> Start control-panel and then click on the "printtool" icon, this
> might make it load up some macros that it cannot find otherwise.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> regards,
> sandipan
> 
> 
> Chris Kesler wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to set up a printer on my "everything server".  It's a RedHat
> 6
> > system with no X server installed.  I telnet to it and set the DISPLAY
> > variable to display on another machine. Then when I run printtool, the
> > printtool window appears but I can't do anything with it.  And I get
> this
> > in my terminal:
> > 
> > Error - couldnt find available devices in find_gs
> >         this should not happen!
> > Error - couldnt find available devices in find_gs
> >         this should not happen!
> > 
> > That keeps repeating until I kill it with CTRL-C.  I don't know what
> > find_gs is.  I have ghostscript and all of the other packages that 'rpm
> > -qR printtool' says I need.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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