Hp P1005

[Steve Repo]

>>>>
>>> Thank for the advise.
>>> This it what I did.
>>> but after making make install. the hplip-1.7.4 (rpm) is this here
>>> and I got the errors that I previously mention.
>>> If I remove the rpm hplip.1.7.4 package, and make an install
>>> of hplip.2.8.7, I lost also the hp-setup, etc... commands even after
>>> I reinstall, so I have to reinstall the rpm hplip.1.7.4 !
>>>
>>> I do not understand why I cannot get the hp-   etc... commands
>>> from hplip-2.8.7.tgz !
>>
>> If you installed the new version from source, you may want to check were
>> it gets installed. Probably in /usr/local, which is a good location for
>> software that doesn't come from an rpm. But by default, it is not in
>> your path. Also, many administrative utilities usually end up in one of
>> the sbin directories (eg /usr/local/sbin), and those are by default only
>> in root's path (and fedora packages often set up consolehelper for users
>> to prompt them for the root password before running such applications.
>>
>> So take a look in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin and if the tool is
>> there, you may try running it from there.
>>
> I made an updatedb and locate hp-setup after a make and make install,
> but only the one installed by hplip-1.7.4.rpm is here !
> Does it recognize that there is a rpm package and doed not reinstall
> a hp-setup ?
>


I'd recommend you do the following,

[1] uninstall hplip rpm (rpm -e hplip)
[2] Untar source (tar -xvzf  hplip-2.8.7.tgz)
[3] Read the README or INSTALL
[4] You may have to run ./configure (not sure check the docs mentioned in #3)
[5] make ; make install
[6] #5 will probably install in /usr/local

This is a generic install for source package.  Installation may be
different for hplip.

I never had to install it and so im not too sure.

Instead of installing from source, you can try this rpm for fedora 9 from here,
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/config(hplip)

There is hplip 2.8.5 rpms for both i386 and x86_64 architectures.

Steve