printing .pdf

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:29:20PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> Not working for me:
>>
>> [chris at p733 ~]$ lpr /home/chris/Desktop/Calendar.pdf
>> lpr: Error - no default destination available.
>> [chris at p733 ~]$ /usr/bin/lpr /home/chris/Desktop/Calendar.pdf
>> /usr/bin/lpr: Error - no default destination available.
>> [chris at p733 ~]$ su
>> Password:
>> [root at p733 chris]# /usr/bin/lpr /home/chris/Desktop/Calendar.pdf
>> /usr/bin/lpr: Error - no default destination available.
>>     
>
> You may have to set a default printer or specify the name of one with -P
> xxx
>
> lpoptions -d printername sets the default for your user.
>
> /var/run/cups/printcap lists which printers cups currently knows about.
>   
[root at p733 chris]# /var/run/cups/printcap
bash: /var/run/cups/printcap: No such file or directory
[root at p733 chris]# cat /var/run/cups/printcap
cat: /var/run/cups/printcap: No such file or directory

I don't have that file. The only thing in the cups directory is 
cups.sock and another directory (certs which contains nothing):

[root at p733 chris]# ls -a /var/run/cups/certs
.  ..  0


Chris

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