[CentOS] HPLIP

[Robert]

Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:35 -0500, Robert wrote:
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>>Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 08:07 -0500, Robert wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>Edit the spec file and remove the conflict.
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>>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.  
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>>I guess I'll live without hp-toolbox for a bit longer.
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>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:
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>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
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>Sources:
>system-config-printer-0.6.131.3-1.src.rpm
>hplip-0.9.7-4.2.src.rpm
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>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
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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.