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 -- 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