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

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

I posted this bug to Redhat's site on bugzilla.

Hopefully these updates will appear in the ...../updates/   directories of
the ftp sites.

Glad you have things working.  I was screaming and feeling my blood boil
when I had this problem.

Cheers.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Kesler [SMTP:chris@pconline.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 22, 1999 12:33 AM
> To:	'tclug-list@mn-linux.org'
> Subject:	RE: [TCLUG:7098] Need help with RedHat's printtool
> 
> You guys were right!  All I got from gs -help was an error message about
> libpng being unable to open a file.  So I upgraded my ghostscript and the
> fonts to 5.50 and printtool started working.  I'm surprised RedHat doesn't
> list that on their errata page.
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> Chris
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Schlough, Mark (NM IT) wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > 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
> > > > 
>