On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:47:25AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> \begin{Dave Fitch}
> >
> > only appears to be available in the "unstable" section.
> > So far I've only been installing "stable" stuff.
> > How does installing an "unstable" thing affect the
> > rest of the system?
>
Depends, really.
> heh.. only use it if you recompile it yourself. otherwise you need to
> suck in most of unstable too (due to new libc versions, etc).
>
You don't have to do that. Going from a recommendation on IRC, you can put "deb-src
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free", and after
apt-get updating, run 'apt-get -b source printtool', but when i tried this, it broke
fatally, and refused to work. (printtool, that is)
> > I'm trying to configure my printer (HP laserjet4)
> > and printtool has worked the best for me in the past
> > so I was going to keep using it - unless anyone can
> > suggest something better that's already in debian?
> > (what are you supposed to use if not printtool?)
>
> i always use LPRng and "magicfilter". magicfilter was better than
> apsfilter when i made the switch, but i think apsfilter has been
> rewritten a fair amount since then.
>
I use LPRng, and apsfilter, and yes it has been rewritten a few times at least.
apsfilter(8) is quite cool, and it just works, after you install all the filters
(which were absolute bitch to install, a Hint[tm] to the apsfilter maintainer is make
the filters either Depends, or Recommends, as magicfilter does.)
> when you install it, it runs magicfilterconfig(8), which will set
> stuff up for you. hplj4 is the default even.
>
Same stuff, different spelling. ApsFilter seems to be the same in this regard.
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