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Installing printers from a command line. 3

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butchrecon

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Does anyone have detailed instructions on how to install a printer for use with Linux RH7 from a command prompt? I need the ability to install printers woith out going into Xwindows. Is that possible? James Collins
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Try upgrading each of those to 4.0. I'm not sure if it will run on RH70, but its worth a try. It should only take a few minutes.

ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/


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Do I need to worry about gnorpm-0.9-15? James Collins
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Probably not. I think thats just a GUI utility that searches the RPM database just as you would do with the commands you ran above.

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rpm -ivh packagename.rpm

Will upgrade as well? James Collins
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file /usr/bin/rpm2cpio from install of rpm-4.0-6x conflicts with file from package rpm-3.0.4-0.48

Any idea what that means? I cnnot install it? James Collins
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/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't link /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib//usr/lib/libc.so.1 to libc.so.1 (No such file or directory)

Does it matter what order I install them in? James Collins
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Thanks for the help. I will download those as well. This is tuff for a novice like me. James Collins
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Just download the RPMs from bgarlocks's link. You don't need the RPMs from the link I gave you now.

The order doesn't matter if you use the --nodeps switch with the rpm command.

Example...

rpm -Uvh pkg1.rpm --nodeps
rpm -Uvh pkg2.rpm --nodeps


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You have been a BIG help fluid11. I wold give you another star but it only allows me to give you one. James Collins
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Still gives me the following error:

/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't link /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib//usr/lib/libc.so.1 to libc.so.1 (No such file or directory)


Any thoughts? James Collins
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now once it is pathed how do I set it up so I can type it from anywhere on the Linux machine? (printconf-tui) James Collins
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I got the rpm to install and I got printconf to install. How to I get it where all I have to do is type printconf-tui? James Collins
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Cool, so the ldconfig worked. Do the following...

updatedb
locate printconf-tui

Where did it put it? If its not in your PATH (which it should be), just create a symlink to it in /usr/sbin.


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create a symlink? What is that? James Collins
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problem is I cannot find the printconf-tui anywhere. the only printconf is a printconf-backend. James Collins
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this is the error I now get when I run printconf-tui

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/sbin/printconf-tui", line 7, in ?
import printconf_tui
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_tui.py", line 43, in ?
from printconf_conf import *
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_conf.py", line 81, in ?
from xml.utils import qp_xml
ImportError: No module named xml.utils

Any Ideas?
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What exactly are you doing now? Did you create the symlink (symbolic link)? Are you sure the packages are installed?

rpm -qa | grep printconf

If so, then verify them...

rpm -V packagename

*don't put .rpm or the version, just the package name alone (rpm -V printconf). Do it for each one.



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