Re: gutenprint?

piperut wrote:
> I have a printer that is supposed to be supported by it (A Canon
> Sp-510). However, I am at a loss as to how to get Yast or CUPS to
> install gutenprint.

YaST works with RPM, so you either search for it (e.g. on rpm.pbone.net)
or make it yourself. The easiest way to make them yourself if you have
no intention on distributing them is to install the following two
programs: createrepo and checkinstall.

First add /usr/src/packages/RPMS as an installation source. Next do the
a ./confige && make on the source as you did before and then as root, do
`checkinstall`. Next do `createrepo /usr/src/packages/RPMS` and you are
able to install with YaST.

Now whenever you make your own RPM or download one that is not available
on SUSE, jusrt place then in /usr/src/packages/RPMS and run
/usr/src/packages/RPMS

The fun part of createrepo is that if you have a directory that you
share with other PCs (with FTP, HTTP, NFS or in an other way) other PC's
can connect to that as an installation source by other PC's and that for
any distro that understands the format. Redhad, Fedra and Mandrake, I
think. Not sure about that.

That is how easy it has become to make your own installation source.
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