FC5 vs cups vs Epson C82 printer

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Tue Apr 4 23:10:49 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> 3 or 4 questions actually.  New install, whatdidjaexpect? :)
> 
> After getting a boot to work on FC5, I switched the inittab to 3 for my 
> next bootup, (and no one has told me what to change to make it use KDE 
> yet when I type startx from a runlevel 3 login, and I have asked here 
> twice already) but while I was there I tried to setup my printer which 
> works flawlessly here using FC2 but with tarball builds of cups, kde, 
> gimp, sane, gutenprint, (yadda) replacing the rpm packages.
> 
> Is it as simple as a 'yum install switchdesk'?

No. It's much more difficult. Run "yum install switchdesk", then for
each user as appropriate, run "switchdesk KDE". "man switchdesk".

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