Re: Setting up plug and print on GuixSD?

[swedebugia]

On 2016-02-02 11:45, address@hidden wrote:
> On 2016-02-01 14:43, address@hidden wrote:
> > address@hidden skribis:
> >
> > > I installed cups and xfce. What more do I need?
> >
> > For printers available on the network as in a typical “enterprise”
> > setup, nothing more: the “print” dialog in Evince and similar tools 
> > will
> > discover it and do the right thing.
> >
> > > In
> > > https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Services.html#Services
> > > I did not find a service declaration for CUPS.
> > >
> > > What is the next step?
> >
> > For a locally-connected printer you’ll certainly need a CUPS daemon
> > running, indeed.  I’m not sure exactly what it takes, but it would
> > clearly be a worthwhile addition!
>
> OK. I gave it a try and this is how far I got:
> The manpages and documentation on cups.org is rather useless regarding
> installation and formatting of the config-files.
>
> The package installs corrupt config-files according to
> $ cupsd -t
> "/gnu/store/qs3xymcsgxa68i8m188261rhxsszx7za-cups-2.1.0/etc/cups/cups-files.conf"
> contains errors.
>
> I have a running working installation of cups 1.7 on my trisquel 7
> machine. I tried copying the working (very similar) configs from there
> which the trisquel-cupsd report as 'OK'.
> => It did not help and the error is not as detailed as I would like
> and there is no debug option is seems.
>
> Is there a good free non-apple-owned alternative to CUPS I could try 
> instead?

The cupsd.conf I tried is attached. I now also tried this as root and 
testing with cupsd afterward without any succes:
cp -r /gnu/store/qs3xymcsgxa68i8m188261rhxsszx7za-cups-2.1.0/var/* /var/

Maybe the error is that the socket referenced in cupsd.conf is missing:
"# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock"

The socket is missing in the store and from the path above. I have no 
idea yet how to create it manually.

cheers
sdb

cupsd.conf
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