[CentOS] Request for hplip upgrade

Mon Mar 3 22:00:26 UTC 2008
Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com>

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