First, has anyone successfully installed the HPLIP driver from HP in CentOS4? Second, does that driver really provide the toolbox which includes handy stuff like ink level monitoring?
I got the source RPM (hplip-0.9.4-1.1.src.rpm) from an FC4 testing mirror, which rebuilt fine on this machine:
. . . + umask 022 + cd /home/rj/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd hplip-0.9.4 + rm -rf /home/rj/rpmbuild/tmp/hplip-0.9.4-buildroot + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /home/rj/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.54540 + umask 022 + cd /home/rj/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf hplip-0.9.4 + exit 0 [rj@mavis ~]$ su Password:
but would not install.
[root@mavis rpmbuild]# rpm -ivh ./RPMS/i386/hplip-0.9.4-1.1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: system-config-printer < 0.6.131.3 conflicts with hplip-0.9.4-1.1.i386 hpijs < 1:0.9.4-1.1 conflicts with hplip-0.9.4-1.1.i386
The conflict with hpijs is a no-brainer -- remove it because hplip is a replacement. But what about system-config-printer? I'm not too keen on dropping back to manually setting up printers. Any advice is welcome.