gnome-control-center printer "add printer" is disable (greyed out) [SOLVED]

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arielenter

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Today will trying to add a network printer I found out that when going to gnome-control-center printer, the "add printer button" is disable.

I found out from the following page, that you'll have to install the cups-pk-helper package to solve this.

http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4337.0

I think this problem has something to do with the following bug report:

http://trisquel.info/es/issues/12696

Hope it helps someone out there.

arielenter

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I guess that what happens is that usually connecting the printer to the computer would install the printer automatically so there is no need for a "add printer", unless you want to install a network printer, in that case you will have to also do that is described in the bug report which is to install the smbclient package too.

sudo apt-get install smbclient

J.B. Nicholson-Owens
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name at domain wrote:
> sudo apt-get install smbclient cups-pk-helper

Thanks for the information!

To the Trisquel maintainers: Perhaps these packages ought to be a part
of the default install for Trisquel 7?

I bumped into this issue and it didn't strike me as proper when I tried
adding a network printer and found the GUI printer system control panel
effectively unavailable.

bzzzzzdroid
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> sudo apt-get install smbclient cups-pk-helper

This comment really helped me (thanks arielgnu)

I was trying to install my HP photosmart D7100 that is plugged into an airport express but there was no option to add printer.

When I installed these two programs it instantly recognised my printer!

Sachin
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install system-config-printer package you will get the old one like T6