[CentOS] hplip problems - configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support"
Roger Wells
ROGER.K.WELLS at saic.com
Mon Mar 16 19:39:29 UTC 2009
Robert Nichols wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full
>> range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on
>> CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems
>> seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely
>> installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-(
>>
>
> The usual problem when a build procedure complains that a package is
> missing when you actually have it installed is that you need the
> matching "-devel" package. The base package just provides the execution
> libraries. You need the development package in order to build new
> programs that use those libraries.
>
>
The point remains, IMHO, that the building and installation of HPLIP
should fail if packages that it needs are not there.
roger wells
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