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)
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?
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?
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reg. Linux User 167806
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