Printer section of System Settings is missing (OpenMandriva Lx 25.06)

[tristanbiesecker]

I know similar problems about printing have been reported before, but unfortunately none of the suggestions I came across solved the issue for me.

Requirements:
I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

OpenMandriva Lx 25.06 (ROME) Rolling x86_64

Desktop environment:

KDE 6.3.4

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

I noticed that the printer section of system settings is missing for me.

Further, when I run kcmshell6 kcm_printer_manager I get the following error message: Could not find plugin kcm_printer_manager.

I’ve tried looking around online to resolve this issue, but so far I haven’t had any luck getting this to work as I would expect. Note that I have the following package related to “print” installed:

gutenprint-common.znver1                           5.3.4-1                   @rolling-znver1
gutenprint-cups.znver1                             5.3.4-1                   @rolling-znver1
lib64chromaprint1.znver1                           1.5.1-5                   @rolling-znver1
lib64gutenprint9.znver1                            5.3.4-1                   @rolling-znver1
lib64qt5printsupport5.znver1                       5.15.15-2                 @rolling-znver1
print-manager.znver1                               23.08.5-2                 @rolling-znver1
printer-testpages.noarch                           2013-12                   @rolling-znver1
system-config-printer.znver1                       1.5.18-3                  @rolling-znver1
system-config-printer-gui.znver1                   1.5.18-3                  @rolling-znver1
task-printing-hp.znver1                            4.0-7                     @rolling-znver1
task-printing-server.znver1                        4.0-7                     @rolling-znver1
xkbprint.znver1                                    1.0.7-1                   @rolling-znver1

Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated!

[zeroability]

How to configure printer in OMLx

Turn your printer on and see if it is automatically configured. Pay attention to whether the right driver was installed. If printer was auto configured and you have correct driver then great, you are all set. If it wasn’t turn off your printer. Open ‘Printer Settings’ aka: ‘system-config-printer’ and remove your printer. If the correct driver was not installed by default we’ll need to add a software package. The next step is to determine what software to add for your printer. In OpenMandriva L…

[DD15]

If you go into System Settings and scroll down to the Connected Devices section, there is no Printers item on the left side of the window?

[tristanbiesecker]

Nope.

[tristanbiesecker]

I believe I have followed the guidance in this post, but no luck.

[rugyada]

kcmshell6 --list |grep kcm_print

[zeroability]

@tristanbiesecker

I believe I have followed the guidance in this post, but no luck.

dnf search plasma6-print
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name
 plasma6-print-manager.x86_64: Print manager for Plasma 6

Make sure that is installed.

[rugyada]

@tristanbiesecker

print-manager.znver1 23.08.5-2 @rolling-znver1

It should be plasma6-print-manager

Install it.
In command you may have to add --allowerasing
or
sudo dnf swap print-manager plasma6-print-manager --allowerasing --refresh

I’d suggest to try some of them and if you get any doubt post the console output here
(abort the transaction of course)

[zeroability]

It probably should be installed by default with plasma. Even the slim version.

[rugyada]

@zeroability

Even the slim version.

My take on the slim edition of OMV (gnome edition) - #7 by rugyada
My take on the slim edition of OMV (gnome edition) - #8 by rugyada

[tristanbiesecker]

When I run the command you provided @rugyada, these are the “unused” dependencies. Does anything look amiss to you? I worry about things like kwallet.

 at-spi2-core                                   znver1                      1:2.56.2-1                                      @rolling-znver1                      1.2 M
 cifs-utils                                     znver1                      7.3-1                                           @rolling-znver1                      365 k
 dbus-x11                                       znver1                      1.16.2-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       26 k
 kauth                                          znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      204 k
 kbookmarks                                     znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      322 k
 kcodecs                                        znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      378 k
 kcompletion                                    znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       42 k
 kconfig                                        znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      657 k
 kconfigwidgets                                 znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      984 k
 kcoreaddons                                    znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      882 k
 kded                                           znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      110 k
 keyutils                                       znver1                      1.6.3-1                                         @rolling-znver1                      112 k
 kglobalaccel                                   znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      136 k
 ki18n                                          znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       16 M
 kiconthemes                                    znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      117 k
 kio                                            znver1                      5.116.0-3                                       @rolling-znver1                       18 M
 kitemviews                                     znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       19 k
 kjobwidgets                                    znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      202 k
 knotifications                                 znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       48 k
 ktextwidgets                                   znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.0 M
 kwallet                                        znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       12 k
 kwidgetsaddons                                 znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      5.1 M
 kxmlgui                                        znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      2.4 M
 ldb-utils                                      znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      115 k
 lib64KF5Archive5                               znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      600 k
 lib64KF5Auth5                                  znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       96 k
 lib64KF5Bookmarks5                             znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      300 k
 lib64KF5Codecs5                                znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      237 k
 lib64KF5Completion5                            znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      235 k
 lib64KF5Config5                                znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      574 k
 lib64KF5ConfigWidgets5                         znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      459 k
 lib64KF5CoreAddons5                            znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      820 k
 lib64KF5Crash5                                 znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       38 k
 lib64KF5DBusAddons5                            znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      109 k
 lib64KF5DocTools5                              znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       27 k
 lib64KF5GlobalAccel5                           znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      319 k
 lib64KF5GuiAddons5                             znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      250 k
 lib64KF5I18n5                                  znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.4 M
 lib64KF5IconThemes5                            znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      297 k
 lib64KF5ItemViews5                             znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      228 k
 lib64KF5JobWidgets5                            znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      196 k
 lib64KF5KIO5                                   znver1                      5.116.0-3                                       @rolling-znver1                      4.4 M
 lib64KF5Notifications5                         znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      387 k
 lib64KF5Service5                               znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      622 k
 lib64KF5Solid5                                 znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      824 k
 lib64KF5SonnetCore5                            znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      544 k
 lib64KF5SonnetUi5                              znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      168 k
 lib64KF5TextWidgets5                           znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      278 k
 lib64KF5Wallet5                                znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      135 k
 lib64KF5WidgetsAddons5                         znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.4 M
 lib64KF5XmlGui5                                znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      888 k
 lib64dbusmenu-qt5                              znver1                      0.9.3-13.16.04.20160218.1                       @rolling-znver1                      173 k
 lib64fam0                                      znver1                      0.1.10-24                                       @rolling-znver1                       29 k
 lib64gnome-keyring-gir1.0                      znver1                      3.12.0-6                                        @rolling-znver1                       14 k
 lib64gnome-keyring0                            znver1                      3.12.0-6                                        @rolling-znver1                      173 k
 lib64notify-gir0.7                             znver1                      0.8.6-1                                         @rolling-znver1                      5.3 k
 lib64qt5qmlmodels5                             znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      567 k
 lib64qt5qmlworkerscript5                       znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       56 k
 lib64qt5quick5                                 znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      5.8 M
 lib64qt5svg5                                   znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      426 k
 lib64qt5waylandclient5                         znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.4 M
 lib64qtspeech5                                 znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       78 k
 lib64samba-policy                              znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       67 k
 lib64secret-gir1                               znver1                      0.21.7-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       26 k
 libgnome-keyring-i18n                          znver1                      3.12.0-6                                        @rolling-znver1                      100 k
 python-charset-normalizer                      noarch                      3.4.1-1                                         @rolling-znver1                      328 k
 python-cups                                    znver1                      1.9.74-5                                        @rolling-znver1                      241 k
 python-idna                                    noarch                      3.10-1                                          @rolling-znver1                      647 k
 python-libxml2                                 znver1                      2.13.8-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      911 k
 python-pysmbc                                  znver1                      1.0.13-20                                       @rolling-znver1                       40 k
 python-requests                                noarch                      2.32.3-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      427 k
 python-tdb                                     znver1                      1.4.13-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       31 k
 samba-client                                   znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      5.1 M
 samba-common                                   znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      373 k
 samba-python                                   znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       28 M
 sonnet                                         znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      806 k
 system-config-printer                          znver1                      1.5.18-3                                        @rolling-znver1                      878 k
 system-config-printer-gui                      znver1                      1.5.18-3                                        @rolling-znver1                      4.7 M

dnf list --installed | grep kwallet yields this:

kf6-kwallet.znver1                                 6.13.0-1                  @rolling-znver1
kwallet.znver1                                     5.116.0-1                 @rolling-znver1
plasma6-kwallet-pam.znver1                         6.3.4-1                   @rolling-znver1
plasma6-kwalletmanager.znver1                      25.04.0-1                 @rolling-znver1
plasma6-signon-kwallet-extension.znver1            25.04.0-1                 @rolling-znver1

[zeroability]

kwallet is a credential manager. You can use it for local or browser passwords, or not use it at all. The bigger issue is the lib64KF5 stuff. That is all from Plasma 5. If you are running Plasma 6 then you don’t want all that.

[tristanbiesecker]

I think that stuff was installed when I installed print-manager because when I attempt to remove that, this is the stuff that’s listed under “Removing unused dependencies”. I didn’t realize that I should have specifically installed plasma6-print-manager.

 at-spi2-core                                   znver1                      1:2.56.2-1                                     @rolling-znver1                      1.2 M
 cifs-utils                                     znver1                      7.3-1                                           @rolling-znver1                      365 k
 dbus-x11                                       znver1                      1.16.2-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       26 k
 kauth                                          znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      204 k
 kbookmarks                                     znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      322 k
 kcodecs                                        znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      378 k
 kcompletion                                    znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       42 k
 kconfig                                        znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      657 k
 kconfigwidgets                                 znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      984 k
 kcoreaddons                                    znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      882 k
 kded                                           znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      110 k
 keyutils                                       znver1                      1.6.3-1                                         @rolling-znver1                      112 k
 kglobalaccel                                   znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      136 k
 ki18n                                          znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       16 M
 kiconthemes                                    znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      117 k
 kio                                            znver1                      5.116.0-3                                       @rolling-znver1                       18 M
 kitemviews                                     znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       19 k
 kjobwidgets                                    znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      202 k
 knotifications                                 znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       48 k
 ktextwidgets                                   znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.0 M
 kwallet                                        znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       12 k
 kwidgetsaddons                                 znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      5.1 M
 kxmlgui                                        znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      2.4 M
 ldb-utils                                      znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      115 k
 lib64KF5Archive5                               znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      600 k
 lib64KF5Auth5                                  znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                       96 k
 lib64KF5Bookmarks5                             znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      300 k
 lib64KF5Codecs5                                znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      237 k
 lib64KF5Completion5                            znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      235 k
 lib64KF5Config5                                znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      574 k
 lib64KF5ConfigWidgets5                         znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      459 k
 lib64KF5CoreAddons5                            znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      820 k
 lib64KF5Crash5                                 znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       38 k
 lib64KF5DBusAddons5                            znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      109 k
 lib64KF5DocTools5                              znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       27 k
 lib64KF5GlobalAccel5                           znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      319 k
 lib64KF5GuiAddons5                             znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      250 k
 lib64KF5I18n5                                  znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.4 M
 lib64KF5IconThemes5                            znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      297 k
 lib64KF5ItemViews5                             znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      228 k
 lib64KF5JobWidgets5                            znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      196 k
 lib64KF5KIO5                                   znver1                      5.116.0-3                                       @rolling-znver1                      4.4 M
 lib64KF5Notifications5                         znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      387 k
 lib64KF5Service5                               znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      622 k
 lib64KF5Solid5                                 znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      824 k
 lib64KF5SonnetCore5                            znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      544 k
 lib64KF5SonnetUi5                              znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      168 k
 lib64KF5TextWidgets5                           znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      278 k
 lib64KF5Wallet5                                znver1                      5.116.0-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      135 k
 lib64KF5WidgetsAddons5                         znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.4 M
 lib64KF5XmlGui5                                znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      888 k
 lib64dbusmenu-qt5                              znver1                      0.9.3-13.16.04.20160218.1                       @rolling-znver1                      173 k
 lib64fam0                                      znver1                      0.1.10-24                                       @rolling-znver1                       29 k
 lib64gnome-keyring-gir1.0                      znver1                      3.12.0-6                                        @rolling-znver1                       14 k
 lib64gnome-keyring0                            znver1                      3.12.0-6                                        @rolling-znver1                      173 k
 lib64notify-gir0.7                             znver1                      0.8.6-1                                         @rolling-znver1                      5.3 k
 lib64qt5qmlmodels5                             znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      567 k
 lib64qt5qmlworkerscript5                       znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       56 k
 lib64qt5quick5                                 znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      5.8 M
 lib64qt5svg5                                   znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      426 k
 lib64qt5waylandclient5                         znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                      1.4 M
 lib64qtspeech5                                 znver1                      5.15.15-1                                       @rolling-znver1                       78 k
 lib64samba-policy                              znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       67 k
 lib64secret-gir1                               znver1                      0.21.7-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       26 k
 libgnome-keyring-i18n                          znver1                      3.12.0-6                                        @rolling-znver1                      100 k
 python-charset-normalizer                      noarch                      3.4.1-1                                         @rolling-znver1                      328 k
 python-cups                                    znver1                      1.9.74-5                                        @rolling-znver1                      241 k
 python-idna                                    noarch                      3.10-1                                          @rolling-znver1                      647 k
 python-libxml2                                 znver1                      2.13.8-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      911 k
 python-pysmbc                                  znver1                      1.0.13-20                                       @rolling-znver1                       40 k
 python-requests                                noarch                      2.32.3-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      427 k
 python-tdb                                     znver1                      1.4.13-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       31 k
 samba-client                                   znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      5.1 M
 samba-common                                   znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                      373 k
 samba-python                                   znver1                      4.22.1-1                                        @rolling-znver1                       28 M
 sonnet                                         znver1                      5.116.0-2                                       @rolling-znver1                      806 k
 system-config-printer                          znver1                      1.5.18-3                                        @rolling-znver1                      878 k
 system-config-printer-gui                      znver1                      1.5.18-3                                        @rolling-znver1                      4.7 M

[zeroability]

Just verify in the same Settings (under About this System) that you are using Plasma 6 and all those dependencies should be okay to remove.

[tristanbiesecker]

Yup, I did and went through with removing print-manager and installing plasma6-print-manager and success!

Now though I need to determine why it’s not automatically recognizing the printers on my network for set up. I have the following installed for my HP printers:

task-printing-hp.znver1                            4.0-7                     @rolling-znver1
task-printing-server.znver1                        4.0-7                     @rolling-znver1

[zeroability]

It’s probably disabled by default. You can confirm by running:

sudo systemctl status cups.service

If enabled, you would see:

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; preset: ena>
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2025-06-13 20:47:04 EDT; 3h 26min ago
 Invocation: 1d04a345c49d407e9acc3d42babcb763
TriggeredBy: ● cups.path
             ● cups.socket
       Docs: man:cupsd(8)
   Main PID: 873 (cupsd)
     Status: "Scheduler is running..."
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 18723)
     Memory: 5.2M (peak: 5.5M)
        CPU: 37ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/system-cups.slice/cups.service
             └─873 /usr/bin/cupsd -l

To enable at boot and start:

sudo systemctl enable cups.service && sudo systemctl start cups.service

[rugyada]

In theory all the qt5 and KF5 package should have their counterpart qt6 and KF6 in Plasma6 system
or packages prepended by plasma6- when available (plasma6-print-manager vs. print-manager, as we learn)

With a lot of patient and some rpm -qa|grep -i foo you probably will get a list of unused packages alleged safe to remove.
Whatever you will do, we suggest to keep a log of the transactions

Automagically creation of the autoremove process log file (you may want to abort it still keeping the log for information, or actually perform it)
sudo dnf autoremove 2>&1 | tee konsole-autoremove.log

[tristanbiesecker]

This was it! Success again. Thank you @rugyada and @zeroability!