My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
Thanks
Bob Taylor wrote:
My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
We only gets what the Redhats send us....
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Bob Taylor wrote:
My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
Our goal is to be 100% directly compatible with the upstream EL software. So, the short answer is ... I have no idea when or if they will put that in a current product.
If you want to know what MIGHT be in CentOS-6 (still probably 6-8 months away) you can look in Fedora 9. The version there (in what is called Rawhide) is currently hplip-2.7.12-5.fc9.src.rpm:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
I would imagine something close to that will be in CentOS-6.
Remember that these things will likely never make it into already released versions of centos .. as enterprise versions STAY with what is released throughout their lifetime.
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:37 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Bob Taylor wrote:
My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
Our goal is to be 100% directly compatible with the upstream EL software. So, the short answer is ... I have no idea when or if they will put that in a current product.
If you want to know what MIGHT be in CentOS-6 (still probably 6-8 months away) you can look in Fedora 9. The version there (in what is called Rawhide) is currently hplip-2.7.12-5.fc9.src.rpm:
Sorry Johnny, I was not specific. What I left off was if the developers were aware of Red Hat's plans. I just presumed they had *some* inkling. This is *one* package that *should* be updated fairly continuously for new printers. Perhaps the current maintainers wouldn't mind?
Bob Taylor wrote:
My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
Instead of the whole HPLIP tar ball you can download just the particular CUPS PPD file for a printer and install that under /usr/share/... and it should then be supported.
-Ross
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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 14:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Bob Taylor wrote:
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Instead of the whole HPLIP tar ball you can download just the particular CUPS PPD file for a printer and install that under /usr/share/... and it should then be supported.
I have already make installed the tarball.
Eh? No PPD's in /usr/share/cups nor my printer in /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP. I will get the rpm stuff from Akemi. Thanks
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Bob Taylor bob8221@gmail.com wrote:
My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
Thanks
Bob Taylor
Uncle Bob,
If you'd really like to use the hplip package rather than going for alternative ways, I suggest you rebuild it from the Fedora srpm. It is much better than installing from a tarball. Just found that hplip-2.7.12-4 for fc8 rebuilds without difficulties. I can offer the stuff I built for CentOS-5 if you like.
Akemi
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:17 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Bob Taylor bob8221@gmail.com wrote:
My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon?
Thanks
Bob Taylor
Uncle Bob,
If you'd really like to use the hplip package rather than going for alternative ways, I suggest you rebuild it from the Fedora srpm. It is much better than installing from a tarball. Just found that hplip-2.7.12-4 for fc8 rebuilds without difficulties. I can offer the stuff I built for CentOS-5 if you like.
Why thank you Akemi! I *really* don't like messing with a distribution. Unfortunately, sometimes what I need is just not there.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Bob Taylor bob8221@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:17 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Uncle Bob,
If you'd really like to use the hplip package rather than going for alternative ways, I suggest you rebuild it from the Fedora srpm. It is much better than installing from a tarball. Just found that hplip-2.7.12-4 for fc8 rebuilds without difficulties. I can offer the stuff I built for CentOS-5 if you like.
Why thank you Akemi! I *really* don't like messing with a distribution. Unfortunately, sometimes what I need is just not there. -- Bob Taylor
I hope you've got the download instructions from me by now. If not, let me know.
Akemi
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