John,
I'm not exactly sure what problems you have encountered. I understand that
you had a questions about the postfix and which option to select for how to
configure it.
Have you looked over this document? (it is a tad outdated with some changes
on ubuntu, but nothing major that would stop the install from completing)
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/install/index.html
What questions did you encounter that you needed more information with
answering? As with anything in linux, windows or any operating system there
is a baseline of knowledge that the user may need to know before proceeding
with any install or configuration task. And my intention was to make it as
easy for a new user as well as for an experienced user.
When did you need to run hparm? What errors did you get that you did not
expect? What questions were you unable to answer?
You do not need any programming knowledge to install HPLIP so I'm unclear as
to what you encountered that made you feel that way.
I've made a good effort to ensure that Ubuntu is highly supported by the
instructions and by the installer as I prefer Ubuntu myself. I'm also
active at http://ubuntuforums.org and I have seen no egregious user
problems/recommendations with the installer or install procedure (least
nothing that I haven't fixed already).
I'm more than happy to assist you with installing HPLIP and if you have any
recommendations on the install instructions and procedure I'd like to hear
your feedback.
A
On 3/8/07, John R. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aaron,
Many thanks for your response. I will certainly try to un-install the
wreckage of hplip. I am not going to try again to install -- by any method.
The installer is still going to ask me to make choices that are totally
impossible for me to make, given the information I have. I can't understand
how sourceforge can put out such a program. Given the nature of things, the
program is most likely to be used after a Linux install, often by someone as
ignorant as I of things like Postfix or LSB -- whatever that is!
I first used a computer more than 50 years ago (it was machine language or
assembly language programming in those far-off days), but have done no
programming for the past 30 years or so. Now, the difficulty seems not to be
the programming, but the jargon. Every time I go near the terminal, I have
to surround myself with reference books -- including the two-inch-thick *Linux
Comands, Editors, and Shell Programming*. Not only is this not
programming, as I used to understand it, but this monster book does not
include many of the commands I have run into, *hparm*, for example. *
Postfix* appears in the index of only one, of the four Linux books I have
around me.
I can't help thinking that it is programs like HPLIP that convince people
that they would be better off sticking with that 'other' OS. Which is a
pity.
Once again, many thanks for your help.
John
Aaron wrote:
John,
Postfix is required for LSB, and LSB is required for HPLIP. Postfix will
not effect Thunderbird in any way.
To remove hplip and start over:
cd hplip-1.7.2
sudo make uninstall
sudo make clean
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/hplip
then to re-run the installer:
./install.py
If the automatic installer is giving you problems you can the manual
install:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/distros/ubuntu.html
A
On 3/7/07, *John R. Ward* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
I'm totally lost! I need a driver for an HP 990cxi printer. I am both
old and quite unused to working with the terminal. I downloaded the
self-extracting driver program hplip-1.7.2.run successfully, and started
the installation process. I was asked questions that meant nothing to
me. (I had never heard of Postfix before! Later I discovered that it has
to do with mail. I don't understand what that has to do with the
printer, and discovered that the definitive work on that subject runs to
300 pages. Beyond me, I'm sure.)
The program hung, at the point of looking for dependencies and
conflicts. (I waited for at least an hour.) I tried to reconfigure
Postfix, but the shell didn't recognize the command line (dpkg
--reconfigure Postfix) that I had carefully written down during the
installation process. The new driver seems not to have been installed
(the printer still runs very slowly, as compared with what it used to do
in Windows and in SUSE 10.0).
Is my mail (Thunderbird) 'broken' as the installation program warned me?
Is there any way of backing out of this situation short of re-installing
Ubuntu -- and putting up with a slow printer?
Sorry to bother you,
John R. Ward
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