Aaron,
Many thanks for your response. I will certainly try to un-install the
wreckage of hplip. I am not going to try again to install -- by any
method. The installer is still going to ask me to make choices that are
totally impossible for me to make, given the information I have. I can't
understand how sourceforge can put out such a program. Given the nature
of things, the program is most likely to be used after a Linux install,
often by someone as ignorant as I of things like Postfix or LSB --
whatever that is!
I first used a computer more than 50 years ago (it was machine language
or assembly language programming in those far-off days), but have done
no programming for the past 30 years or so. Now, the difficulty seems
not to be the programming, but the jargon. Every time I go near the
terminal, I have to surround myself with reference books -- including
the two-inch-thick /Linux Comands, Editors, and Shell Programming/. Not
only is this not programming, as I used to understand it, but this
monster book does not include many of the commands I have run into,
*hparm*, for example. *Postfix* appears in the index of only one, of the
four Linux books I have around me.
I can't help thinking that it is programs like HPLIP that convince
people that they would be better off sticking with that 'other' OS.
Which is a pity.
Once again, many thanks for your help.
John
Aaron wrote:
John,
Postfix is required for LSB, and LSB is required for HPLIP. Postfix
will not effect Thunderbird in any way.
To remove hplip and start over:
cd hplip-1.7.2
sudo make uninstall
sudo make clean
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/hplip
then to re-run the installer:
./install.py
If the automatic installer is giving you problems you can the manual
install:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/distros/ubuntu.html
A
On 3/7/07, *John R. Ward* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'm totally lost! I need a driver for an HP 990cxi printer. I am both
old and quite unused to working with the terminal. I downloaded the
self-extracting driver program hplip-1.7.2.run successfully, and
started
the installation process. I was asked questions that meant nothing to
me. (I had never heard of Postfix before! Later I discovered that
it has
to do with mail. I don't understand what that has to do with the
printer, and discovered that the definitive work on that subject
runs to
300 pages. Beyond me, I'm sure.)
The program hung, at the point of looking for dependencies and
conflicts. (I waited for at least an hour.) I tried to reconfigure
Postfix, but the shell didn't recognize the command line (dpkg
--reconfigure Postfix) that I had carefully written down during the
installation process. The new driver seems not to have been installed
(the printer still runs very slowly, as compared with what it used
to do
in Windows and in SUSE 10.0).
Is my mail (Thunderbird) 'broken' as the installation program
warned me?
Is there any way of backing out of this situation short of
re-installing
Ubuntu -- and putting up with a slow printer?
Sorry to bother you,
John R. Ward
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