Hp P1005

[Patrick Dupre]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Steve Repo wrote:

>>>>>
>>>> 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 alrady did, but I am going to do it again!
>
> 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.
Yes, I also try to compile the fc9 version, it does work, but I cannot
install it because a dependence problem which would have requires
to go to far in recompiling etc... (including SElinux).

>

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