Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Norfolk, VA
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I never got my old Dell all-in-wonder printer to work right with Linux. Though it would print from the CENTOS box, it never functioned correctly as a network printer, and the scanner never worked.

So, I was overjoyed to find a used HP OfficeJet 6110 by way of Freecycle. It was up and running on the CENTOS box in about 5 minutes.

So, in order to get it working as a network printer, I followed a link macker gave me a while back about installing the CUPS windows drivers. Here's were things get annoying.

I installed CUPS 1.2.1 from source (./configure, make, make install all went off without a hitch). The windows drivers require CUPS >= 1.2, but the RPM says I still have CUPS 1.1.2 installed.

Um...ok. I figured I'd install from source and see if that made any difference.

The source distribution comes with no configure script. Make results in one line of text: "Type MAKE INSTALL to install the CUPS driver files." So I enter that. I see it installing a few files--but here's the kicker: several files that are supposed to be installed are not. That is, the CUPS documentation says to move several files to a specific directory so that they can be installed via samba when you add the network printer from a windows box, yet the install procedure does not produce them. So far as I can tell, they are not included.

I know this probably has to do with me being a Linux noob, but on the other hand, about 90% of software on Linux appears to have been created by someone who assumes nobody but him will ever use it, and then only on the machine in his living room ("What? What do you mean you don't have the custom drivers I wrote on a napkin back in 2003? Sucks to be you, works on my box just fine!")

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Now maybe it's just me, but each and every time that I read one of these posts of yours, I thank god that I am not you.

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Originally posted by squee
I installed CUPS 1.2.1 from source (./configure, make, make install all went off without a hitch). The windows drivers require CUPS >= 1.2, but the RPM says I still have CUPS 1.1.2 installed.

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This is probably correct--I was trying to install CUPS 1.2 over 1.1-something. However, last time I removed cups (via Yum) it blew away gnome and several other packages as well, so I figured that this time it would just overwrite the existing version...not sure what you mean by changing the prefix tho, can you elaborate?

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Using the windows drivers requires the following files:
cups6.ini (got it)
cupsui6.dll (got it)
cupsdrv6.dll (missing)
ps5ui.dll (missing)
pscript.hlp (missing)
pscript.ntf (missing)
pscript5.dll (missing)

This is after trying to install the windows driver RPM using --nodeps (assuming that, even tho RPM doesn't think I meet the dependency requirements, I probably in fact do if the 1.2 install went off without errors).

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When you run ./configure, it by default installs files with a prefix of /usr/local(so libraries go into /usr/local/lib, binaries into /usr/local/bin, man pages into /usr/local/man, etc), whereas distributions install their packages with a prefix of /usr(so /usr/lib, etc). This is done deliberately as the assumption is made when you're installing software by hand compiling it, you're doing it outside of the distributions package management system.

The easiest way to change the prefix is to re-run configure with "--prefix=/usr". You should then just be able to run "make install" again, however it's worth keeping in mind that a future yum update of cups might stomp on your installed files.

As for the missing files, you should read the documentation more carefully. The missing files are the MS Postscript drives. From the readme for the windows cups drivers:

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This driver is implemented as rendering and user-interface
modules for the Microsoft PostScript printer driver
(PSCRIPT5.DLL and PS5UI.DLL) which is included with the
corresponding Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 operating
system.

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Ok, I think I got it.

Will report after trying the install again this afternoon.

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No joy. I installed per your instructions--yum and RPM still report that I am running the older version of cups, and the windows drivers will thus not install. Attempting to install with --nodeps but RPM reported that that rpm was already installed. Placed all of the driver files in the correct directory...

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[squee@localhost drivers]# ls -latr
total 1508
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 26038 Jul 21 2001 pscript.hlp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 792644 Jul 21 2001 pscript.ntf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 455168 Aug 17 2001 pscript5.dll
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jun 12 22:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13672 Jun 12 22:49 cupsui6.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12568 Jun 12 22:49 cupsps6.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 Jun 12 22:49 cups6.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 803 Jun 12 22:49 cups6.inf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 129024 Jun 13 16:48 ps5ui.dll
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 17:26 .

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Got it to work here with two vmware instances without issues, so I'm guessing you're either missing something or managed to break something with your custom install of CUPS.

You could try just printing to CUPS directly without the Samba stuff(the procedure is something along the lines of binding CUPS to the external interface, letting your subnet talk to the CUPs print, and then setting up an Internet based printer in Windows using the Generic -> Microftsoft Imagesetter driver).

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