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.
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 08:07 -0500, Robert wrote:
Edit the spec file and remove the conflict.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I tried that, even went so far as to rebuild system-config-printer, too. At that point I felt just about like I did trying to cram CUPS into RH7.2 before finally throwing in the towel and installing RH7.3. ....that was pre-YUM.
I guess I'll live without hp-toolbox for a bit longer.
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:35 -0500, Robert wrote:
Well - has been quite a bit longer, but if you're still waiting, can report that I just got a new HP OfficeJet 5610 today and it worked out- of-the-box with the 5500 driver, but when I went searching for scanner support and utilities and found the same conflicts you encountered. Fortunately, Fedora has advanced since October '05 and the following packages from the FC4 repo rebuild from *.src.rpm and work on CentOS4:
system-config-printer-0.6.131.3-1 libsane-hpaio-0.9.7-4.2 hplip-0.9.7-4.2 hpijs-0.9.7-4.2
Sources: system-config-printer-0.6.131.3-1.src.rpm hplip-0.9.7-4.2.src.rpm
The pre-requisites mentioned for Fedora on http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php seem to work fine. No need to even remove hpijs. Scanner and tools seem fully functional.
Phil
Phil Schaffner wrote:
I was and wasn't still waiting. My situation was such that my printer (Deskjet 6122) works great except for ink monitoring, etc, therefore my need was spectacularly non-critical. In any event, thanks for the information. I'm currently printing the common and FC-specific pages at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php and will undertake the upgrade later.
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