The HP deskjet 710C driver depends on ghostscript and pnm2ppa. This is part of my cups error.log D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] Starting renderer D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] JCL: <job data> D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] renderer PID kid4=16409 D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] renderer command: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARAN OIDSAFER -dBATCH -r600 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=- - | pnm2ppa -v 710 --fd --bi -B 2 -t 150 -b 150 -l 150 -r 150 -x 160 -y 50 -i - -o - D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] perl: warning: Please check that your loc ale settings: D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] LANGUAGE = (unset), D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] LC_ALL = (unset), D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] LANG = "en" D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] are supported and installed on your syste m. D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] perl: warning: Falling back to the standa rd locale ("C"). D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dNOPAUSE' '-dPAR ANOIDSAFER' '-dBATCH' '-r600' '-sDEVICE=ppmraw' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/f d/0' 3>&1 1>&2 D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] sh: line 1: gs: command not found D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] sh: line 1: pnm2ppa: command not found D [04/Apr/2004:20:43:16 +0200] [Job 2] renderer return value: 127 possible fixes: 1. add a dependancy 2. add a econf message for HP deskjet users to emerge both ghostscript and pnm2ppa 3. ban all HP deskjets from the face of this planet If it were up to me I'd settle for option 3 ;) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
i'm in favor of solution one ;) fixed :)