Hp P1005

[Steve Repo]

2008/8/23 Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk>:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Steve Repo wrote:
>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thank for the advise.
>>>>> This it what I did.
>>>>> but after making make install. the hplip-1.7.4 (rpm) is this here
>>>>> and I got the errors that I previously mention.
>>>>> If I remove the rpm hplip.1.7.4 package, and make an install
>>>>> of hplip.2.8.7, I lost also the hp-setup, etc... commands even after
>>>>> I reinstall, so I have to reinstall the rpm hplip.1.7.4 !
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not understand why I cannot get the hp-   etc... commands
>>>>> from hplip-2.8.7.tgz !
>>>>
>>>> If you installed the new version from source, you may want to check were
>>>> it gets installed. Probably in /usr/local, which is a good location for
>>>> software that doesn't come from an rpm. But by default, it is not in
>>>> your path. Also, many administrative utilities usually end up in one of
>>>> the sbin directories (eg /usr/local/sbin), and those are by default only
>>>> in root's path (and fedora packages often set up consolehelper for users
>>>> to prompt them for the root password before running such applications.
>>>>
>>>> So take a look in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin and if the tool is
>>>> there, you may try running it from there.
>>>>
>>> I made an updatedb and locate hp-setup after a make and make install,
>>> but only the one installed by hplip-1.7.4.rpm is here !
>>> Does it recognize that there is a rpm package and doed not reinstall
>>> a hp-setup ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'd recommend you do the following,
>>
>> [1] uninstall hplip rpm (rpm -e hplip)
>> [2] Untar source (tar -xvzf  hplip-2.8.7.tgz)
>> [3] Read the README or INSTALL
>> [4] You may have to run ./configure (not sure check the docs mentioned in
>> #3)
>> [5] make ; make install
>> [6] #5 will probably install in /usr/local
>>
>> This is a generic install for source package.  Installation may be
>> different for hplip.
>
> I alrady did, but I am going to do it again!
>>
>> I never had to install it and so im not too sure.
>>
>> Instead of installing from source, you can try this rpm for fedora 9 from
>> here,
>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/config(hplip)
>>
>> There is hplip 2.8.5 rpms for both i386 and x86_64 architectures.
>
> Yes, I also try to compile the fc9 version, it does work, but I cannot
> install it because a dependence problem which would have requires
> to go to far in recompiling etc... (including SElinux).
>


If there are dependencies, try

yum localinstall <hplip rpm filename>

Yum will automatically download dependencies.

Steve