On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:17 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at 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. -- Bob Taylor