Unable to access CUPS or configure a printer on AntiX-19

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am new to AntiX but have used Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux before. I’m really glad you all still support the use of older 32-bit hardware on your recent versions. Because of this, I decided to use AntiX on a few old laptops I recently acquired.

Anyhow, after installing AntiX, I was unable to configure any printers.

Here is what I tried so far:

I went to the Control Centre, and I didn’t see “Printers” or anything like that under any of the sections/tabs.

I’m most familiar with configuring printers via the browser interface of CUPS, so I tried to access that.
I attempted to access CUPS via the browser (Firefox), using http://localhost:631, Firefox said “unable to connect”.

I also launched a terminal and did “sudo service cups restart” and also “sudo service cups start”, and received a message “cups: unknown service”.

I also tried to install cups using apt and apt-get “sudo apt install cups” and “sudo apt-get install cups” and received a message “E: Unable to locate package cups”.

Firefox also did not let me manage printers from the Print dialog box on the pages I was going to print, the only printer listed was the PDF output option, not a hardware printer.

I have also pasted below the output of “inxi -Fxz” in the terminal, if that helps with the version information, hardware etc.
System:
Host: antix19-gateway Kernel: 4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32
compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610
Distro: antiX-19-runit_386-base Marielle Franco 9 December 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Gateway product: Gateway M320 and 4500 Series
v: 53.01.03 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gateway model: Gateway M320 and 4500 Series
v: KBC K53.28.18������������� serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 53.01.03
date: 12/09/2004
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 7.5 Wh condition: 16.4/48.8 Wh (33%)
model: Gateway 4400 status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP
arch: M Dothan rev: 6 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: sse sse2 bogomips: 2591
Speed: 1296 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1296
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics vendor: Rioworks
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2
v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Rioworks
driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Rioworks driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: 3000 bus ID: 02:08.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN vendor: Gemtek
driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 3000 bus ID: 02:09.0
IF-ID-1: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (7.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS424040M9AT00 size: 37.26 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 33.92 GiB used: 2.60 GiB (7.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 487.9 MiB used: 49.4 MiB (10.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 139 Uptime: 26m Memory: 1.94 GiB used: 391.9 MiB (19.8%)
Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
inxi: 3.0.36

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

Warm regards,
antixnewbie21

[Member PPC]

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Anonymous wrote:

tried to install cups using apt and apt-get “sudo apt install cups” and “sudo apt-get install cups” and received a message “E: Unable to locate package cups”.

Did you try running “sudo apt update” first? you can also use antix updater, available in the menu…

My advice: try to install cups from antiX’s “Package Installer” (you can run it from the menu or the terminal: “sudo packageinstaller”)

P.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by PPC.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Alternatively, install the full version – it comes with printing support on the iso.

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[Member Robin]

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When I remember correctly, all you need to do is

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cups
sudo apt-get install cups-browsed
sudo apt-get install cups-filters

after which you should be able to login in browser using
http://localhost:631

without cups-browsed and cups-filters it didn’t work for me, even after installing cups. And as ppc said before, make sure you have executed update first, otherwise no packages can be found.

And If I’m not mistaken after this printer service in antiX control center works also.
But all this was valid on antiX 17.4 when I last had to do this, things might have changed meanwhile.

So you might be better off following simply anticapitalistas advice.

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