Terry Polzin wrote: > On Tuesday February 16 2010 04:45:05 John Doe wrote: > >> From: Terry Polzin<foxec208 at wowway.com> >> >> >>> where can I find packages for hplip and it's deps for centos4x? >>> >> Google pointed to this... >> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html >> >> JD >> >> >> > Been there, just source not a helpful site at all. Hplip's many deps that > seem to be outside the mainstream distro make it hard to compile. > It has been too long ago to remember the details but I just mounted a CentOS-4 disk to verify that I did, in fact, rebuild hplip for CentOS-4. I don't know where the SRPM came from (I suspect it was for some version of Fedora) but it successfully built on that CentOS-4 box. I *DO* remember that there were allegedly some problems with scanning and faxing on all-in-one printers back then but all I needed was the "supplies" (ink levels) function. [root at madeleine oldsys]# find . -type f -name hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm -exec ls -l {} \; -rw-rw-r-- 1 rj 501 6725260 Jan 15 2006 ./home/rj/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm [root at madeleine oldsys]# rpm -qip ./home/rj/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm Name : hplip Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.9.7 Vendor: (none) Release : 4.2 Build Date: Sun 15 Jan 2006 10:40:46 PM CST Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: mavis.localdomain Group : System Environment/Daemons Source RPM: hplip-0.9.7-4.2.src.rpm Size : 8597226 License: GPL/MIT/BSD Signature : (none) URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project Description : The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals. [root at madeleine oldsys]# The source is no longer in the SRPMS directory and I have no idea where I got it -- but if I were guessing, I'd guess it was from Rpmforge. If I were doing it, I would try rebuilding some SRPMS **BUT** before installing one of those homemade puppies, run this little script to be certain that the RPM contains no files that will over-write existing files. ------------------ #!/bin/bash T="<path/to/newly-built/rpm>" rpm -qlp $T > /tmp/xxfiles.txt echo "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" >> /tmp/xxfiles.txt while read F do if [ -e "$F" ] then echo "$F Exists!" fi done < /tmp/xxfiles.txt exit ------------------------------------- (The 4th line above is there only as a quick test that the script will report conflicts.) BTW, if you keep the "xxfiles", copied somewhere safe and renamed, you should be able to easily undo any silliness that results.