Anne Wilson wrote:
I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-(
The usual problem when a build procedure complains that a package is missing when you actually have it installed is that you need the matching "-devel" package. The base package just provides the execution libraries. You need the development package in order to build new programs that use those libraries.