Hp P1005

[Patrick Dupre]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, David Jansen wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:14:17AM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>>>> But it is here:
>>>>>> Bus 007 Device 006: ID 03f0:3d17 Hewlett-Packard
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using the GUI? Did you tell it to look for USB printers (hplip
>>>>> supports parallel and network printers as well). Sorry for the stupid
>>>>> questions but the docs say the 1007 is supported.
>>>>
>>>> Yes I do have hplip-gui installed and it does try to look that the USB,
>>>> etc..
>>>> I really looks like that it is the problem with FC7, because I cannot
>>>> install a recent version of hplip, 1.7.4 is too low, it looks that that I
>>>> need a 2.8
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Get the latest drivers from here
>>> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=851608
>>>
>>> And here is the changelog.  P1005 was added around 2.8.2 I think,
>>> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/release_notes.html
>>>
>> Thank for the advise.
>> This it what I did.
>> but after making make install. the hplip-1.7.4 (rpm) is this here
>> and I got the errors that I previously mention.
>> If I remove the rpm hplip.1.7.4 package, and make an install
>> of hplip.2.8.7, I lost also the hp-setup, etc... commands even after
>> I reinstall, so I have to reinstall the rpm hplip.1.7.4 !
>>
>> I do not understand why I cannot get the hp-   etc... commands
>> from hplip-2.8.7.tgz !
>
> If you installed the new version from source, you may want to check were
> it gets installed. Probably in /usr/local, which is a good location for
> software that doesn't come from an rpm. But by default, it is not in
> your path. Also, many administrative utilities usually end up in one of
> the sbin directories (eg /usr/local/sbin), and those are by default only
> in root's path (and fedora packages often set up consolehelper for users
> to prompt them for the root password before running such applications.
>
> So take a look in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin and if the tool is
> there, you may try running it from there.
>
I made an updatedb and locate hp-setup after a make and make install,
but only the one installed by hplip-1.7.4.rpm is here !
Does it recognize that there is a rpm package and doed not reinstall
a hp-setup ?

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