[wellylug] Hp Printer install on SUSE 10 help needed

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Thu Nov 2 11:43:34 NZDT 2006



-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Wood [mailto:pcreso at pcreso.com]
Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:58 a.m.
To: Wellington Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Hp Printer install on SUSE 10 help needed


--- 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

Brent, thanks for the reply.

I got the SLED DVDs at a NUI installfest at Wgtn Polytech last week. The
guys presentting the show did say that OpenSUSE was a good place to get
stuff.

Initially I did try the native drivers, I was impressed when plugging in the
printer (usb) it was recognised as an HP1000 but the only drivers that
looked close were for HP 1012, 1015 and 1022, none of which worked. thats
why I went to the HP support site for linux drivers for the HP1000.

After running the HPLIP installer, even though it didn't complete because of
the problem mentioned above, after running Yast again I now had the choice
of an HP1010 driver. Still didn't work tho'

Its all becoming a bit much like hard work. Put the HP1000 back on the pile
where it came from, grabbed an old OkiPage 16, connected it to the parallel
port and it works just like that.

I only wanted a printer so I could copy some web pages with info on getting
the sound card working!
Peter 


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