Greetings; My printer just advised me via a blinking led that one of the ink cartridges was empty. So I sent yum looking for mtink which worked very nicely for FC2. No dice. Google for mtink fc6, found a repo called gemi which had it. Added that to the repo's and had mtink installed via yumex. No dependency problems according to yumex. It wouldn't run, couldn't find libMx.so.3. A locate found the only copies I had on the old FC2 drive. And for FC6, even the dir it was in was missing as there was no /usr/X11R6/lib dir, only a bin there. So I made a lib dir there, copied the old libMx.so.3.0.2 to it and made a link to libMx.so.3. in that dir. Then I added that path to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig -v, which seemed to be happy. Then mtink runs just fine, and told me it was the black cartridge that was empty. For some reason, replacing it with the genuine epson cartridge caused the printer to crash and I actually had to do a pull the power cord reset on it, but once that was done everything was cool again, and mtink when restarted, tells me the cartridge is now full. But I fail to see why a very important report tool, such as mtink or escputil, was totally omitted from the distribution in view of a mistaken assumption of which cartridge is empty and gets changed, is a nearly $30 mistake. Can someone knowledgeable address this? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
