On Wed, 28 May 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think that I'm making the much harder than need be...or that it can't be
> done.
>
> I have a RH 7.3 system and I've gotten a new HP Laserjet 1300 printer. OK,
> so I checked and found that there is a driver for this printer on the CUPS
> site. I download it only to find out that I am missing a component which I
> must get with a new version of ghostscript. <sigh> Ghostscript won't
> install cause it needs GLIBC_2_3 and mine is glibc_2_2. OK, fine. I'll
> just build ghostscript from source...but when I try to do that, it tells
> me that in order to build ghostscript, I need gimp-print-devel. So, I dl
> the source of gimp-print-devel and rpm tells me that ghostscript-devel is
> needed by gimp-print-devel. And, of course, ghpostscript is needed by
> ghostscript-devel (another failed dependency).
>
> Normally, I'd put everything on one rpm command line and let rpm figure
> everything out (as good old rpm should) but some packages are src and
> others are "regular" rpms.
>
> I worry about upgrading glibc because the upgrade may break many things.
> My questions then are:
> 1. Will upgrading glibc break things as I fear? (If not, then I do that
> and the install should work)
If there is a Red Hat errata, then using that should be OK, but if not,
this is Extremely Risky Behavior. Glibc version bumps are usually cause
for a new RHL release.
> 2. Failing that, is there a way to get the ghostscript, gimp-devel, etc.
> install to work?
I did something similar for RH8 to get a driver for my HP InkJet 5550, but
I can't recall exactly how... I think I installed pre-compiled
gimp-print-devel, as I don't appear to have an SRPM for that lying around,
then rebuilt ghostscript. I'm not sure how to get around circular
dependencies with SRPMs. If the binary ones will install, first install
those, then build the source ones.
> 3. the CUPS driver is a postscript driver for this printer. If I don't go
> with CUPS, what alternate do I have for printing with my new printer?
If it's got native PostScript, you could just use the native PostScript
driver. I don't know what kind of support you'd get in LPRng, but you
might look at that too.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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