Helpful Debian Tutorials

I’ve found this excellent tutorial on setting up printers in Debian too late. However it has helped me with the final piece of the puzzle and I now have printing working in firefox under KDE after following the advice to replace:

lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

with

kprinter --stdin

in the firefox printer properties.

The site debiantutorials has plenty of Debian tutorials, designed to be easy enough for someone migrating from windows. They’re a great timesaver if you’re looking for how to do something not officially supported by debian such as playing encrypted dvds and other codecs such as wmv or installing the nvidia 3D drivers.

5 Responses to “Helpful Debian Tutorials”

  1. machiner Says:

    Hi Tim –

    Thanks for visiting my site and for this cool heads-up to my site.

    Keep on keepin’ on.

    –machiner

  2. corey Says:

    Found a pretty useful Debian reference card today and thought I would share it with you.

    http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/refcard-en-a4.pdf

  3. Tim Hardy Says:

    V useful cheat sheet, Printed and kept! Cheers Corey!

  4. machiner Says:

    Hello —

    MadCarter’s has morphed/moved. The site is now debiantutorials.org and can be found at that address.

    –Thanks

    PS. With Firefox 1.5 the printing workaround that I wrote about on my site is no longer necessary.

  5. Tim Hardy Says:

    Hi Machiner. Thanks for the update. debiantutorials.org looks great.

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