Anton Aylward composed on 2017-02-28 08:08 (UTC-0500):
Well I took the bite and upgraded from 13.2 all the way to 42.2 as Tumbleweed. For the most part it has gone well, or well enough.
In one jump from 13.2 to TW? Stopover in 42.2 on the way to TW? Offline, or with zypper?
I have a few complaints about the look and feel; "Oxygen" isn't the same and the GTK3 took some tweaking to bring back the end arrows on the scroll bars. I haven't figured that for the rest of KDE.
Please provide specifics for restoring the end arrows. Firefox 46 & up (built with GTK3) and SeaMonkey >2.40 are unusable here because those are missing.
But a show-stopper is the printer. It worked fine and was set up with no problems in 13.2 but won't function in 42.2/Tumbleweed.
The 5170DN is a postscript printer and I seem to recall reading that the new openSuse standard is for the print system to be PDF based not postscript based. I don't know how to get round that.
Well OK I could if this was a pure UNIX SVR2 but it isn't, its CUPS.
I also saw mention that the PPD/drivers were 32-bit. The 13.2 system was 64-bit but that worked. OK, so I put back the libstdc++6-32bit and restarted CUPS.
Still no joy.
I deleted the printers and reinstalled using YAST. This is a network connected printer. From within YAST the test page prints OK, but I then subsequently can't print from any application or use 'lp' to print any page as I once could.
----------------- Considering the postscript/PDF change I've considered :- a) use the print dialogue to save the page as a .ps in /tmp b) use netcat to squirt the .ps to port 515 of the printer.
No, that can't be right, surely there's a handshake/dialogue/wrapper? -----------------
Have I been misled? Am I making some wrong assumptions? In the past CUPS and Yast have "just worked" and I've never had any problems. Perhaps I should have stuck with 13.2 despite the EOL. After all, it worked and I had no complaints. I'm not sure that I can roll back not that the various repositories have been deleted.
I haven't tried printer setup on any 42.2 installations, and don't remember anything about printer setup on any of my TW installations, even if I did any. I don't print much. But ethernet printing works fine here on 42.1 with my HL-5470DN using the 32-bit software and instructions from Brother's web site: # rpm -qa | sort | egrep 'hl5|cups' cups-1.7.5-7.1.x86_64 cups-client-1.7.5-7.1.x86_64 cups-filters-1.0.58-12.1.x86_64 cups-filters-cups-browsed-1.0.58-12.1.x86_64 cups-filters-foomatic-rip-1.0.58-12.1.x86_64 cups-filters-ghostscript-1.0.58-12.1.x86_64 cups-libs-1.7.5-7.1.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-5.1.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-lang-0.2.5-5.1.noarch hl5470dwcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386 hl5470dwlpr-3.0.0-1.i386 python-cups-1.9.72-2.2.x86_64 python-cupshelpers-1.5.7-3.6.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-3.2.x86_64 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org