I am trying to configure a remote printer on a windows system. I am using Kubuntu vers 4.8.5. The selection for remote printers is absent and when I try server settings I am told I have a possible wrong password and no admin rights. I have tried looking for a queue in ipp settings and the application crashes. The bug report facility to the crash also crashes. Is there any way to get a new system setting application or to upgrade to a more recent version? I had a previous version of Kubuntu and the systems settings printer config worked fine.
KDE developers no longer maintain version 4.8.5. Please update to version 4.12.5 or newer. Alternatively, you could report this issue to the bug tracker of your distribution. They might offer long-term support.
Thank you Chris. Thought that may be it. I have also been trying to find out how to update to the latest version of KDE. Neither Muon nor Synaptics indicate an upgrade is available. sudo apt-get upgrade does not install 4.12 either. Also the bug crash report does not work, but the new version will probably correct that.
Created attachment 88187 [details] attachment-12706-0.html Thanks Chris. The bug tracker crashes; nevertheless a system upgrade should fix a lot of stuff. I'm trying to find the tarball for the source code of of 4.12.5 or newer and it seems the code is in repositories all over the place. Do you know the location of the source tarball I could download and attempt to rebuild the os? Thanks again. Yours, Bruce On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Christoph Feck <christoph@maxiom.de> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338135 > > Christoph Feck <christoph@maxiom.de> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Resolution|--- |UNMAINTAINED > Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED > CC| |christoph@maxiom.de > > --- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <christoph@maxiom.de> --- > KDE developers no longer maintain version 4.8.5. Please update to version > 4.12.5 or newer. > > Alternatively, you could report this issue to the bug tracker of your > distribution. They might offer long-term support. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. >
Please ask in a forum of your distribution how to update your software.
I am looking for the tarball for the update to 4.12.5 or later. I can find individual modules but not a tarball for the entire upgrade. Is there a location for this particular instruction on getting the source (link) https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Sources Download a tarball snapshot of just the code as at a given time or release. This is most commonly done if you do not want to develop the code itself but just want to use it for a stable system installation, testing a release, or developing applications outside of the KDE SC.
Bruce, the KDE software compilation is split into several tarballs because they have dependencies among each other. If you are sure you want to compile it yourself, using the kdesrc-build tool might be useful. See http://kdesrc-build.kde.org/ But seriously, I don't understand why you don't simply use the backports PPAs. Several other users are already enjoying the 4.13.3 version.
Chris, I would love to use backport PPAs. I have Muon and Synaptik and neither indicate a version upgrade. I have tried the kdebuild software but I need a newer version of Cmake than the one I have. I have rebuilt Cmake from scratch but cannot install it into the correct directory. I'll try googling backport PPAs and see what happens. Thanks for your time.
Created attachment 88209 [details] crash report from printer configuration Selecting new printer, and looking for an ipp queue yields this crash report.
I should also let you know I have now upgraded to 4.13.2.
That crash is from the old Python-based system-config-printer-kde, which has been replaced with print-manager from kdeutils since version 4.11.