Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 09 March 2009 13:40, John Doe wrote: > >>>> there's >>>> also: >>>> rpm -qa dbus-python\* >>>> to check that something is installed. >>>> >>> That simply returns >>> dbus-python-0.70-7.el5 >>> >> In case you did not try it already, have you tried hp-check? >> > > To me it implies that I have earlier versions of some packages than the > required ones. > > >> Did you check >> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html for >> dependencies? >> >> > No - I didn't know about that page. When I installed it before there were > some included instructions and I followed those. Presumably they are now > out of date. I'll try that page in a day or two, when I have time for a > decent session. However, I did give yum the command for all those > dependencies, and it did find some that I didn't have already, but after that > hp-check still listed these: > > Checking PyQt 4.x version... > error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD! > > Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit... > warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP > functionality may not function properly > > Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this > dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this > dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library > development files... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this > dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure > that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version > 4.x)... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure > that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP > > Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure > that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: Python ctypes - A foreign function library for > Python... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure > that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure > that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files... > error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make > sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. > > I'll have to come back to this later in the week. > > Anne et al., I have followed the directions on the referenced link. Good for HP for providing such clear instructions, however, All steps complete as hoped but hp-check gives 2 errors & 2 warnings: PyQt4 Dbus error Python Dbus error Reportlab warning CUPS DDK warning running hp-setup does seem to run and it let me install a printer although it issued an error: error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm... running hp-toolbox fails: [roger at rwells-rh hplip-3.9.2]$ hp-toolbox warning: python-dbus not installed. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0 Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 246, in ? from ui4.devmgr5 import DevMgr5 File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/devmgr5.py", line 45, in ? from dbus.mainloop.qt import DBusQtMainLoop ImportError: No module named mainloop.qt I will try a printer with a scanner at home tonight but I am not holding out much hope. Any ideas appreciated, thanks for everyone's time roger wells > Anne > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells at saic.com