Hello again.
First off, thanks for the support. Now back to the issue =)
As Rainer has mentioned, there is no longer a redhat-switch-printer utility.
As of RH ES 3 they completely abandoned LPRng. You can not even select the
package...its not available for it.
What I did was try to download the source rpms as much as possible, since I
figured distro specific rpms might cause library problems...they did.
I have made no progress since my last message. I decided however that I was
going to try to get the printconf-gui package installed so that I could use
printtool.
Here are the steps, abbreviated and annotated.
rpm -Uvh --test printconf-gui-0.3.61-4.1.i386.rpm
> it told me that it had the following four dependecies
>pygtk-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm
>pygtk-libglade-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm
>pygnome-1.4.1-3.i386.rpm
>pygnome-libglade-1.4.1-3.i386.rpm
>I started from the top...
rpm -Uvh --test pygtk-libglade-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm
>it had two dependecies
>gdk-pixbuf-0.18.0-8.1.i386.rpm
>libglade-0.17-11.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh --test gdk-pixbuf-0.18.0-8.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh --test libglade-0.17-11.i386.rpm
>libglade had a dep
>gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-32.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh --test gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-32.i386.rpm
>it had two deps
>ORBit-0.5.17-7.i386.rpm
>libpng10-1.0.13-8.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ORBit-0.5.17-7.i386.rpm
(success)
rpm -Uvh libpng10-1.0.13-8.i386.rpm
(success)
> so i started working my way back up the chain, but was met with an odd
obstacle.
rpm -Uvh gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-32.i386.rpm
(success)
rpm -ivh libglade-0.17-11.i386.rpm
(success)
rpm -Uvh gdk-pixbuf-0.18.0-8.1.i386.rpm
(success)
rpm -Uvh --test pygtk-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm
(success)
>nice, I am back at the top again. but wait...
# rpm -Uvh --test pygtk-libglade-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
pygtk = 0.6.8 is needed by pygtk-libglade-0.6.8-3
> OK, I KNOW I just installed that one.
# rpm -q pygtk
pygtk-0.6.8-3
> so, I rebuild the database:
# rpmdb --rebuilddb
> still no go. So i try a more crafty rebuild..i delete the d&^n database
files, lol.
# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpm -vv --rebuilddb
> still didnt see the installed dependency, even tho I can.
# rpm -qa|grep "pygtk"
pygtk2-1.99.16-8
pygtk2-libglade-1.99.16-8
pygtk-0.6.8-3
> I do the only thing I can do now...
rpm -ivh --nodeps pygtk-libglade-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm
> now I move on, hopeing that that wont become an issue (foreshadowing)
# rpm -Uvh --test pygnome-1.4.1-3.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
pygtk = 0.6.8 is needed by pygnome-1.4.1-3
> I had to force that one too...can you see where this is going?
# rpm -Uvh --test pygnome-libglade-1.4.1-3.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
pygnome = 1.4.1 is needed by pygnome-libglade-1.4.1-3
pygtk-libglade = 0.6.8 is needed by pygnome-libglade-1.4.1-3
> =o
So, I had to force everything from this point, even tho it really was
installed.
After all this I run printtool from inside my window manager and get:
# printtool
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/printtool", line 7, in ?
import printconf_gui
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_gui.py", line 83, in ?
import gtk, gnome.ui, libglade, gnome.xmhtml
ImportError: No module named libglade
Of course when I query rpm for libglade, it shows up.
I fianlly broke down and called RH tech support.
They officially told me that they do not support "3rd party software".
I got no help from them.
In conclusion, do not expect LPRng to work on ES 3, and definately do not
expect any support from RH.
What were these other packages you all mentioned?
Any more insight on trying to get LPRng Tools or printtool to work?
Thanks
Chad
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