[wellylug] Hp Printer install on SUSE 10 help needed

[Brent Wood]

--- Peter Jones <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz> wrote:

> Hello all, 
> I'm attempting to install an HP laserjet 1000 onto a PC running SUSE 10
> (SLED). 
> >From the HP support website I downloaded HPLIP-1.6.10-run  - an installer
> with Linux drivers for most HP printers.

Hi Peter,

Did you try getting SLED to recognise the printer natively? 

Start YAST, hardware, printers & go from there. The HP Laserjet driver is
already there if you need to manually tell it what the printer is. I also
believe the Laserjet 1010 driver is compatible with the 1000.

I've set up several HP/Epson laser/inkjet/multifunction printers on both SLED &
OpenSuse 10.1 & in every case it recognised the printer & installed drivers etc
automatically.

> In a terminal window as SU I enter sh ./hplip-1.6.10-run
> This starts an extraction, recogises the distro as SUSE10 and begins the
> install process.
> Then installation notes state: before continuing, open another terminal and
> run:
> installation_sources -a
> http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-sourc
> e/
> 
> The link can be opened with a browser ok
> 
> Putting the above line in at the command prompt in a second terminal returns
> bash: installation_sources: command not found

If you do need to do this, try using the YAST GUI to add the installation
source
manually instead of the command line.

I'd be very cautious though, as you are telling SLED to accept files from an
OpenSUSE repository. It may well be assuming you are running OpenSUSEv10, & not
SLED10. There is no guarantee such packages will be compatible or work,
although the odds are good. SLED & OpenSUSE are similar, but not the same. Like
some Fedora packages will also work, but don't count on it :-)

I have several OpenSUSE repositories added to SLED, & have found they work
pretty well, just that is is at your own risk. Adding non-Novell software to a
SLED installation makes it hard for SLED to manage updates etc. If you do need
to do this, perhaps OpenSUSE is a better option for you?


Cheers,

  Brent