[Buildroot] Help lpr and general package advice
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Apr 24 22:01:40 UTC 2012
Hello John,
Le Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:46:52 +0100,
"John X" <john.x at virgin.net> a écrit :
> I'm relatively new to buildroot, so please bear with me, I've just created a
> build, which boots and provides me with most of the functionality I need,
> however, I've just run an application and I've received a message that it
> cannot find lpr
>
> I've checked and as far as I can see it's in the busybox distro,
>
> I've done a make menuconfig and gone through the options, but cannot see
> where I can select the option so lpr is in my build, so I'm guessing its
> part of a larger package.
>
> Where do I look to see what packages contain ?
A lightweight implementation of lpr is available in Busybox, but is not
enabled in the default Busybox configuration that Buildroot contains.
Do:
make busybox-menuconfig
And then in "Print utilities", enable lpr.
Regards,
Thomas
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