Re: Installing Red Hat drivers in Ubuntu



On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:24:29 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

I'm going to try to install some Red Hat printer drivers into a Ubuntu
machine. The drivers are packaged in *.rpm format, is Ubuntu able to
make use of these? The drivers say they are compatible with Red Hat
(natch), SuSE, and Mandrake.

Yousuf Khan

To an extent using alien, but the real question is why, what printer is
so anal that it will only install on linux using redhat drivers.

.



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