Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:40 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: ...
HPLIP uses HPIJS for generating printer-ready-data for non-postscript print jobs. HPIJS has been available since 2001 as a uni-di solution. HPIJS has been modified to support HPLIP, but HPIJS is still backward compatible with existing spoolers.
And I just tried yum install hplip and came up empty.
Given what the the URL tells about this utility, I would think it should be part of the Centos base!
I rebuilt http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/hpli... from Fedora Core 4. Works-for-me from a local yum repo for an HP OfficeJet. Unless the upstream provider adds it, it won't be in the base anytime soon, but could be a CentOSplus candidate.
Phil
Acting on your tip, I rebuilt the FC4 RPM for CentOS 4 also. It was a completely painless rebuild but I discovered that a nasty little "feature" of the hp-toolbox is that, if left running it will hog memory, causing everything in sight to swap out to disk. Not a pretty sight, first thing in the morning! Since I really wanted the features, I have root call a homemade seek-and-destroy script at the top of every hour to kill any toolbox I left open. In the process of scratching my head, I wondered if maybe this unruly behavior is the reason it's not included in CentOS...
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