HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Frantisek Hanzlik franta at hanzlici.cz
Sat May 26 08:59:27 UTC 2012


Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/26/2012 12:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
...
>> Now, if hp-setup could only tell me what it downloaded, and where it dumped
>> whatever it loaded on the filesystem… 
> 
> Hey, it is proprietary so why should they tell you?  :-)
...
# whereis hp-setup
hp-setup: /usr/bin/hp-setup
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/hp-setup
hplip-3.12.2-4.fc16.i686
# rpm -qi hplip|grep -i licens
License     : GPLv2+ and MIT

Although PPD files may be proprietary, hplip itself isn't.
And despite of it, there IMO should be traceable what in filesystem
was changed. Probably not only in GPL OSes.


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