Maple 11 not printing in Linux (CUPS)

Posted on 2008-05-07 18:43 By Pollywog (5)

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Maple Commons general technical discussions

I run Maple11 on a Kubuntu Hardy Heron system that uses CUPS printing and printing generally works, even for Gnome apps.

I Googled and found that others had the same problem with Maple11 and there was a reference to this:

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L433+I0+TFAQ+P1+Q

I followed the advice to make a /etc/cups/client.conf file and add the line ServerName=localhost to that file and to also export the environment variable

CUPS_SERVER=localhost

I restarted Maple and when I try to print, I no longer get the error message from Maple about not finding the print service but the printer still does nothing.

From what I read, this is actually a problem with JAVA and not with Maple. Does anyone know how I can get printing to work in Maple? I would have to have to install Maple on the Billygates OS just to get printing working.

thanks

some debug output

Comment on 2008-05-07 18:56 from Pollywog (5)

I tried it again after starting xmaple from the command line and I get this interesting line when I try to print:

#16 /home/pollywog/maple11/jre.IBM_INTEL_LINUX/lib/i386/libjava.so(Java_java_security_AccessController_doPrivileged__Ljava_security_PrivilegedAction_2+0x3d) [0xb758d2cd]
#17 [0xb2a7b41b]
#18 [0xb2a759a4]
#19 [0xb2a73157]

I thought of a possible

Comment on 2008-05-07 19:06 from Pollywog (5)

I thought of a possible reason for this problem. I installed Maple11 on my user account, not systemwide. I really don't want to have to install it systemwide because I don't know if I have enough space left on the / partition to install it.

Are any of you able to print with Maple installed in your home directory in Linux?