Installing a gutenprint patch??
Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 22 20:28:22 UTC 2006
William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I have been having problems printing with The Gimp. The sourceforge.net
> gimp-print mailing list advised that I download the
> gutenprint20060505.tar.bz2 patch. (Called Gutenprint 5.0 pre-release
> snapshot). I have download it.
>
> Now, where do I install it to work with FC5 and The Gimp?
> Should I install it? Is this good advice or will I get into conflicts
> with existing FC5 gimp-print? Do I replace /usr/share/gimp-print or do
> I just add a new gutenprint folder in /usr/share/gutenprint? It is not
> an rpm, so, do I go ahead and config install, make, install? I have
> only installed with 'make' a few times and that was a couple of years
> ago. Should I wait for a Fedora rpm. I am not afraid of trying to
> install a *.tar.bz2, if I can get some advice.
>
The package is under review in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108
There is a SRPM available which you can build for yourself. yum-builddep
in yum-utils would be useful.
Note that this package might contain bugs.
Rahul
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