Gutenprint for FC5

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

Hello All,

Has anyone installed gutenprint on a FC5 box?  Does it work well?
Should it be avoided?  I'm about to give it a shot in order to use a
printer that is supported in gutenprint, but not in the gimp-print
package in FC5.

Also, are there any rpms out there?  I haven't been able to find any so
far.

Thanks,

Ranbir

[Robert Nichols]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone installed gutenprint on a FC5 box?  Does it work well?
> Should it be avoided?  I'm about to give it a shot in order to use a
> printer that is supported in gutenprint, but not in the gimp-print
> package in FC5.
>
> Also, are there any rpms out there?  I haven't been able to find any so
> far.

There's a gutenprint RPM for FC5 in the extras-development
repository.  You'll need to enable both "development" and
"extras-development" to get the RPM to install because it
needs the latest glibc from development.

yum --enablerepo=development --enablerepo=extras-development install 
gutenprint

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:16 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
> There's a gutenprint RPM for FC5 in the extras-development
> repository.  You'll need to enable both "development" and
> "extras-development" to get the RPM to install because it
> needs the latest glibc from development.

It looks like a FC6 rpm to me:

Available Packages
gutenprint.i386                          5.0.0-0.15.fc6

I think I might just have to build/install from source. Thanks for the
reply, though!

Regards,

Ranbir

[Paul Howarth]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Has anyone installed gutenprint on a FC5 box?  Does it work well?
> > Should it be avoided?  I'm about to give it a shot in order to use a
> > printer that is supported in gutenprint, but not in the gimp-print
> > package in FC5.
> >
> > Also, are there any rpms out there?  I haven't been able to find any so
> > far.
>
> There's a gutenprint RPM for FC5 in the extras-development
> repository.  You'll need to enable both "development" and
> "extras-development" to get the RPM to install because it
> needs the latest glibc from development.
>
> yum --enablerepo=development --enablerepo=extras-development install 
> gutenprint

extras-development is Extras for Rawhide, not Extras for FC5. It 
contains packages built against Rawhide since around the end of August. 
Whilst the majority of the packages there are FC6-compatible and some 
may even be FC5-compatible, they will move towards FC7-compatibility 
over the next few months (i.e. they may require more and more 
dependecies from Rawhide (such as glibc) as time goes on.

Paul.

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:08 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone installed gutenprint on a FC5 box?  Does it work well?
> Should it be avoided?  I'm about to give it a shot in order to use a
> printer that is supported in gutenprint, but not in the gimp-print
> package in FC5.
>
> Also, are there any rpms out there?  I haven't been able to find any so
> far.

I have used it since FC5 came out for my epson printer.  Works fine.
> Thanks,
>
> Ranbir
>
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