achinoam01: 10.7: MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 not printing

Saturday, August 20, 2011

10.7: MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 not printing

The MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 port would not produce a printer, the 'backend' part. In Terminal, I found the file /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf is set up as a symlink (root:wheel) to file /opt/local/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf (my_user-id:staff).

I finally did as follows:

Renamed the symlink file with a '_x' suffix.
Copied the actual file /opt/local/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf over to the folder /usr/libexec/cups/backend/.
Typed in sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf.

And now, MacPorts CUPS-PDF produces PDFs.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. It's strange that the symlink should break like that. I suppose it's a permissions issue.]