printer support problem

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Greetings;

My printer just advised me via a blinking led that one of the ink 
cartridges was empty.  So I sent yum looking for mtink which worked very 
nicely for FC2.

No dice.  Google for mtink fc6, found a repo called gemi which had it.

Added that to the repo's and had mtink installed via yumex.  No dependency 
problems according to yumex.

It wouldn't run, couldn't find libMx.so.3.

A locate found the only copies I had on the old FC2 drive.  And for FC6, 
even the dir it was in was missing as there was no /usr/X11R6/lib dir, 
only a bin there.  So I made a lib dir there, copied the old 
libMx.so.3.0.2 to it and made a link to libMx.so.3. in that dir.

Then I added that path to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig -v, which 
seemed to be happy.

Then mtink runs just fine, and told me it was the black cartridge that was 
empty.  For some reason, replacing it with the genuine epson cartridge 
caused the printer to crash and I actually had to do a pull the power 
cord reset on it, but once that was done everything was cool again, and 
mtink when restarted, tells me the cartridge is now full.

But I fail to see why a very important report tool, such as mtink or 
escputil, was totally omitted from the distribution in view of a mistaken 
assumption of which cartridge is empty and gets changed, is a nearly $30 
mistake.  Can someone knowledgeable address this?

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