Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 13 September 2004 12:02, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >>hello, >>i'm using CUPS as my print system and KDE's printer control center >> module to setup printing. the problem is that my printer isn't >> listed in the "Printer Model Selection" dialog. >> >>i read in the archives that updating to gimp-print-4.2.7 and also >> foomatic would solve the problem. but i have a few questions about >> that. will that help when setting up CUPS or just only when using >> the redhat printer config program? do i need to update gimp-print >> or gimp-print-cups? also, where can i find these RPMs? they >> aren't on the gimp-print sourceforge page. >> >>thanks for the help. > > Generally speaking, that family of software can be installed from > tarballs. Instead of using 'make install' as the final step, use > checkinstall, very latest (1.60-beta3) version, to actually do an rpm > installation. I've done that here. But if you have yum enabled for > automatic updates, add cups*, gimp-print*, and gutenprint* to the > exclude list. Otherwise yum has been known to downgrade my cups > install to one that totally breaks kde. > > You would be advised to join the gimp-print list, there has been quite > an extended discussion of the r200 and cousins recently. thanks for the reply. i solved my problem after i posted though (isn't that always the case?). i installed gimp-print-cups-4.2.7, restarted cups, then in KDE's printer control module, i added a printer just fine. it worked great.
