[ale] ramblings of a rpm session from hell

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Fri Feb 9 17:53:18 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:24 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 16:16, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Oh boy that sounds familiar. As far as installing hplip, I've never had
> > problems since the very 1st time installing it, I think around 0.6.x.
> > And now that some one has rolled it into a script run file it's even
> > easier until I attempted this time with FC6. My earlier installs were on
> > Suse, Ubuntu, and a couple other distos that I can't remember. I'm
> > beginnig to think that it has something to do with the i686 kernel, and
> > as I don't have either ATI or Nvidia video controllers, I might just try
> > downgrading to i586 and see if my troubles go away.
> 
> on my new Dell , I have an HP5600 all-in-one attached, and I use smart to 
> update the hplip installs.
> bc at Paulspc:~> rpm -qa|grep hpl
> hplip-hpijs-1.7.1-1.pm.1
> hplip-1.7.1-1.pm.1

I get rhpl-0.194-1 and nothing if grep for hplip
So I guess it ain't installed, period  oye vey #&%*$@)$?! (as he cuses
in both Spanish and Hebrew).....
>  
> the HP stays mostly attached to my laptop. For home use, I usually use my 
> trusty Epson stylus color 880.. I can get the ink cartridges for it much 
> cheaper.
> 




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