installing gutenprint on Debian
Dear Debianists,
I have been looking on linuxprinting.org for help finding a driver for my
Epson D88 that doesn't like being configured at the moment.
The site says that the driver for the D88 lives in the Gutenprint package.
Going on the sourceforge site to dow load it has given me a tarball.....
I couldn't find a package for apt in synaptic in Debian Sarge 3.1 r4 that I
use but I thought that I might ask in case there is one somewhere that I
don't knwo about..
Here are the instructions from sourceforge:
All Other Users
Users of other operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
HP-UX, etc. should download the main package, named
"gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2". This is a "source tarball"; it contains the
source code for the package and must be compiled to produce binary
executables. The command to unpack this file is
tar xjvf gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2
On some systems, you may have to issue the following command:
bunzip2 -c gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
This will create a subdirectory named gutenprint-5.0.0. You should read the
files named README and NEWS in that subdirectory for further instructions.
I hope that footmatic will be able to see the driver when it is installed
by the above recipe if I end up having to use it.
Comments appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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