Anne et al., I have been out for a while. Has any resolution to this occurred. I am still interested in it working correctly even though I seem to have a "kludge" sort of working, i.e. I can scan & print, no fax but I can live with that. roger wells Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 19:30:17 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. >> > > Yes, I understand that. I did forget, at the beginning, but that problem was > resolved a week or more ago. All the packages that needed -devel packages got > them installed. If I had had more time to spend on it, it might have been > possible to track down why it failed to find the package. The actuall error > was > > 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. > > I might have another play with this setup when things are less busy. > > 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