pycups system-config-printer hal-cups-utils cblfs

[luxInteg]

Greetings

I am new to this list. I have a machine with these:-

-------cpu amd64 2 cores
-------o/s cblfs kernel-2.6.35.4 kde-4.4.5
-------cups-1.4.4/ epson-stylus-bx300f printer  AND.

I have tried   the following
pycups-1.9.48/1.9.51
system-config-printer-1.2.1/1.2.4
they all compile problem free

((( I have even followed instructions given at 
( http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/pycups/) 
and inserted ldflags=-liconv at line 12 of the Makefile of pycups )))




 but running them is another story:-
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linteg [ ~ ]$ system-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 74, 
in <module>
    import cups
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so: undefined symbol: 
libiconv
linteg [ ~ ]$ 
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The problems do not seem to be  gui dependent,
( I have the same result on the CLI before startkde).  

some advice would be appreciated

sincerely
luxInteg

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 21:15 +0100, luxInteg wrote:
>  ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so: undefined
> symbol: 
>  libiconv 
Does 'python setup.py build_ext -liconv' work any better for you?

Not sure how distutils is supposed to handle different platforms and
their various library requirements.

Tim.
*/

[luxInteg]

On Friday 17 September 2010 09:26:57 Tim Waugh wrote:
>  On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 21:15 +0100, luxInteg wrote:
>  > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so: undefined symbol:
>  > libiconv
>  
>  Does 'python setup.py build_ext -liconv' work any better for you?
>  
>  Not sure how distutils is supposed to handle different platforms and
>  their various library requirements. 

thanks for your sugestion which I followed, 
running system-config-printer now reponds as shown below

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linteg [ ~ ]# system-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 93, 
in <module>
    import jobviewer
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/jobviewer.py", line 27, in
<module>
    import pynotify
ImportError: No module named pynotify
linteg [ ~ ]# 
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suggestions for further progress will be welcomed

[Tim Waugh]

On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 20:41 +0100, luxInteg wrote:
>  ImportError: No module named pynotify 
What platform is this for?  The source package for the pynotify module
is 'notify-python' I think... or else it might come with libnotify.

Tim.
*/

[luxInteg]

On Wednesday 22 September 2010 10:06:00 Tim Waugh wrote:
>  On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 20:41 +0100, luxInteg wrote:
>  > ImportError: No module named pynotify
>  
>  What platform is this for?  The source package for the pynotify module
>  is 'notify-python' I think... or else it might come with libnotify.
>   
Thanks I had already tried   the former and it works.