Hi, I'm planning on setting up a Red Hat 7.2 box for use as a general-purpose server at home. It'll be running samba to act as a file/print server. I'll need to set it up to use an HP Laserjet Series II printer (PCL), but thus far I've only been able to successfully setup a printer if I had about 200-400 megs worth of packages (python, alchemist, foomatic, printconf, printconf-gui, python, libxml2, perl, perl-libxml-perl, perl-libwww-perl, perl-storable, ghostscript, newt, ad nauseum), and only via the "printtool" utility within XFree. And if I attempt to uninstall these packages afterwards, I run into dependency problems until I uninstall printconf, which has the effect of removing files that are required for lpd to function. The only package that appears to not be required for lpd to start is printconf-gui (175,467 bytes - not much of a disk space saver to remove that...)
Apart from setting up a printer, I have no use for XFree on this server. Is it possible to set up this printer without having all that bloat installed? I have a machine with Red Hat already setup to use this printer (the new machine will get the printer when I install it on my LAN) - can I just copy some stuff from this machine to the new one, such as /usr/share/printconf and the binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin? There *has* to be a way to do this - I refuse to believe that any form of Linux would require 200 megabytes of supporting files just to output text and graphics to a PCL printer... Jeff Lanthripp _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
