[CentOS] Network Scanner and CentOS 5.5

Mon Jan 17 20:20:45 UTC 2011
David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net>

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 03:42 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> David McGuffey wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 15:19 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
> >> RHEL/CentOS have very old packages for HP printer/scanner support,
> >> although there will be a vastly updated version available in 5.6.  I just
> >> got a new All-in-One e709a to work across the network with the packages
> >> from rpmforge.
> >>
> >> You can use rpmforge through yum, or download the packages directly at
> >> <http://packages.sw.be/hplip/>
> >>
> >> Once installed, run (as root) hp-setup
> >
> > I have had rpmforge installed for some time.  'yum list hplip' gives me
> > an old 1.x version that is installed.
> 
> that old version is in centos. Rpmforge now has several repos, packages 
> that upgrade base centos rpms are now in the rpmforge-extras repo. This 
> includes hplip which is at 3.10.6 in rpmforge-extras.
> See  http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2010-November/003411.html
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With CentOS 6 coming out one day, I think I'll wait...migrate to 6, then
revisit getting the HP Photosmart 3210 All-in-One to scan and fax. But I
will keep your guidance in mind.

Thanks.

Dave M