Hplip

[anilbh]

I had down loaded the latest HPLIP and compiled and used it in FC4. No problems . I did the same in FC5 and no luck .
I used PUP to get the new rpm of HPLIP . However as they say it did not run out of the box . It did not have the ppd file for my printer so I read through the original ( downloaded tgz ) and hpijs from that . That solved teh problem for the printer driver . However the scanner was still not operative . I am downloading sane etc. to get that working .

The point I am trying to make is that perhaps it could be included in the rpm file as many expect an rpm file to cure everything. :)

[Firewing1]

It is already. sane (and xsane) are for scanners and the scanner GUI, hplip & cups are the printing system, and hpijs is for the printer drivers. So:
yum install cups cups-config-daemon hpijs hplip sane xsane
Would fit all your needs.
Firewing1

[anilbh]

It is already. sane (and xsane) are for scanners and the scanner GUI, hplip & cups are the printing system, and hpijs is for the printer drivers. So:
yum install cups cups-config-daemon hpijs hplip sane xsane
Would fit all your needs.
Firewing1
I have got it to work without knowing how . I did update xsane sane-backend etc maybe that is why .
I was merely comparing with the source tar.gz file from Linux printing .org . It compiled and ran on FC4 - it had all the drivers and scanner was also installed with one cups installation .

[Firewing1]

All is well then the only thing is tar / gz installation are VERY hard to manage - well really it's impossible to manage as not many at all support "make uninstall" and even fewer people will keep their source compile directories...

RPMs would have done the same and removing is as simple as rpm -e name... You can also use some of it's cool features like -q --whatprovides or -ql - It's just IMHO a better habit to use RPMs whenever possible.
Firewing1