Phil Schaffner wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:35 -0500, Robert wrote:
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>>Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 08:07 -0500, Robert wrote:
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>>>>The conflict with hpijs is a no-brainer -- remove it because hplip is a
>>>>replacement. But what about system-config-printer? I'm not too keen on
>>>>dropping back to manually setting up printers. Any advice is welcome.
>>>>
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>>>Edit the spec file and remove the conflict.
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>>Thanks for the reply. I tried that, even went so far as to rebuild
>>system-config-printer, too. At that point I felt just about like I did
>>trying to cram CUPS into RH7.2 before finally throwing in the towel and
>>installing RH7.3.
>>....that was pre-YUM.
>>
>>I guess I'll live without hp-toolbox for a bit longer.
>>
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>
>Well - has been quite a bit longer, but if you're still waiting, can
>report that I just got a new HP OfficeJet 5610 today and it worked out-
>of-the-box with the 5500 driver, but when I went searching for scanner
>support and utilities and found the same conflicts you encountered.
>Fortunately, Fedora has advanced since October '05 and the following
>packages from the FC4 repo rebuild from *.src.rpm and work on CentOS4:
>
>system-config-printer-0.6.131.3-1
>libsane-hpaio-0.9.7-4.2
>hplip-0.9.7-4.2
>hpijs-0.9.7-4.2
>
>Sources:
>system-config-printer-0.6.131.3-1.src.rpm
>hplip-0.9.7-4.2.src.rpm
>
>The pre-requisites mentioned for Fedora on
>http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php
>seem to work fine. No need to even remove hpijs. Scanner and tools
>seem fully functional.
>
>Phil
>
>
I was and wasn't still waiting. My situation was such that my printer
(Deskjet 6122) works great except for ink monitoring, etc, therefore my
need was spectacularly non-critical. In any event, thanks for the
information. I'm currently printing the common and FC-specific pages at
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php and will undertake the
upgrade later.
