On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 20:44 -0400, fred smith wrote: > Hi! > > I did a base (default) install from i686 DVD onto my netbook. it's > working fine, but... > > it doesn't have any tools to configure any printers. so using "add/remove software" I searched for "printing" and it came up with an item "Printing Support" > and installed it. > > but I still don't have any items in any of the menus to allow printer > configuration. > > there is a package installed named system-config-printer-libs-1.3.9-1.fc17.i686 > but it doesn't seem to contain anything obviously designed as an end-user UI > for configuring printers. > > how is one supposed to set up a printer on F17? # yum install system-config-printer If you have HP printers, you might prefer # yum install hplip > > (I suppose I could fall back on browsing to port 630...) > > thanks! > > Fred > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
