Ubuntu
libpaper package

  1. Bug #71671
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 71671

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SPopejoy (stuart-pinksheets) wrote :

I experienced the exact same problem. A recent fresh install of Edgy Eft Kubuntu resulted in days of frustration trying to use the Print Manager, CUPS (localhost:631), foomatic-gui, and anything else I could think of to get printing to Letter.

Finally I happened across a google to check /etc/papersize and lo and behold, it was set to A4.

Note, however, that while this is related to libpaper1, /etc/papersize is not included in it according to dpkg -L:

$ sudo dpkg -L libpaper1
/.
/etc
/etc/libpaper.d
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libpaper.so.1.1.2
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man5
/usr/share/man/man5/papersize.5.gz
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libpaper1
/usr/share/doc/libpaper1/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libpaper1/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libpaper1/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/lib/libpaper.so.1

Therefore I am concluding that the installer must dump this file in there. I will file a new bug accordingly and link to this.

Stuart