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From: "ET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lack of "enable" and "disable" commands
afterinstalling CUPS via tarball
grumpypenguin wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:59, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
Hello, all
Situation in a nutshell - I knowingly and under no duress installed
Mandriva from the first CD of the powerpack 2006. That is, that's all I
downloaded. I knew that that would mean work down the road, but I sort
of
wanted that, in order not to get lots of stuff I didn't need.
Just for future reference, (and kinda sorry about answering in-line)
Why be sorry about the standard way of answering a Usenet post? :-)
there is even a more economical way, get the boot.iso and burn it. it sets
up mirrors for main and contrib sources during and after the install, and
downloads only the programs you want to install, no 650 meg ISO before
install download. but do it however -you- like to do it...
More or less it's worked out OK. I can develop on the Linux side, which
is
the main thing. But I'd dearly like to be able to print on the Linux
side
also. Back in the day I tried to get an earlier version of CUPS to
recognize a HP DeskJet - that was heinous, and so I gave it up. As I
understand it, though, in this day and age it ought not to be a problem
to
have Mandriva grok a LaserJet 1014.
I installed CUPS through a tarball (I have been forced to stop using
RPMs
because of the ridiculous dependency problem - I even get complaints
about
missing shared libs when the thing is actually in place under the
correct
name in the correct directory, so I said to hell with rpmdrake and
urpmi).
I have gotten to the stage where at least one of the print utilities
supplied with Mandriva detects the HP printer. Using lpstat does the
same.
However, I am not able to enable the printer to actually print, because
there is no "enable"/"disable" command pair anywhere on my machine, as
the
web sites avow there must be.
Lacking the "enable" and "disable" commands, what exactly should I do?
is HLIP installed?
Regards,
AHS
AHS, you install some way you decide should work, and don't want to
install more, but complain if installing more is what it takes to get the
system to do what you desire?
Well, I wouldn't put it quite that way. :-)
I did want to have a minimal install, so that when I added stuff I wished to
have I'd be very aware that I got it and installed it. For the most part
this approach has worked out fine.
As I say, I am a bit bedevilled with using RPMs because not infrequently the
utilities (command line or GUI) complain that a shared library doesn't
exist, when I know damned well that it does, and it's in the right place. I
don't have a solution for this other than to use tarballs in some cases.
I take it you must have very limited bandwidth to download?
and downloading the complete media description from the mirror for main
and contrib and the related backports and updates takes more than you can
justify? it's less than 100 megs total if you get the big full discription
files, but I seem to recall, there is a method to use a lighter file that
provides less information per file.
you did go to easyurpmi.zarb.org or one of the other easyurpmi mirror
configuration sites and set up the sources for your version and arch?
My download bandwidth is fine. I don't think twice about 25 MB or 50 MB
downloads to get a piece of software. I also am up to date on the stuff you
mention - the media descriptions. Getting and installing stuff by RPM, using
rpmdrake or rpm or urpm*, is not the issue.
In this specific case, what occurred is that I got the CUPS tarball, and all
the sources I found said that at a certain point, use the "enable" command.
And there were no such programs. That was what my question was about.
I saw your note about HPLIP, and have downloaded it. It seems to be the
solution.
AHS
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