printer configuration on F17 ???

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:51 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:44 PM, fred smith
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>         Hi!
>         
>         I did a base (default) install from i686 DVD onto my netbook.
>         it's
>         working fine, but...
>         
>         it doesn't have any tools to configure any printers. so using
>         "add/remove software" I searched for "printing" and it came up
>         with an item "Printing Support"
>         and installed it.
>         
>         but I still don't have any items in any of the menus to allow
>         printer
>         configuration.
>         
>         there is a package installed named
>         system-config-printer-libs-1.3.9-1.fc17.i686
>         but it doesn't seem to contain anything obviously designed as
>         an end-user UI
>         for configuring printers.
>         
>         how is one supposed to set up a printer on F17?
>         
>         (I suppose I could fall back on browsing to port 630...)
>         
>         thanks!
>         
>         Fred
>         
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> 
> If using an HP printer, go to the "Add/remove software", search for
> "hplip" and mark the two that are not installed for installation. I
> don't know if yum will work on this one. I have this challenge all the
> time when upgrading to the next version; I love the challenge knowing
> that, in Linux, the solution is relatively simple.

Look, system-config-printer does have the facilities to configure
printers. I have done this twice in the last 2 weeks. A short cutto the
program is found under the user name menu under:System Setup -> Printer.

Alternately you can open your browser and go to: localhost:631
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