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- <article>
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- <title>PPA Printer-Support RPM Packages for MANDRAKE Linux distributions.
- <author>The pnm2ppa project team
- <htmlurl url="mailto:ppa-rpms@sourceforge.net"
- name="ppa-rpms@users.sourceforge.net">
- <date>v0.2 June 11, 2002
- <abstract>
- Information about using pnm2ppa
- with Mandrake.
- (Updated for pnm2ppa-1.04 and later.)
- </abstract>
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- <p>
- <bf> Mandrake-specific issues.</bf>
-
- See the document
- <htmlurl
- url="file:INSTALL.REDHAT.html"
- name="INSTALL.REDHAT.html">
- for installation and setup. That document is written
- for Red Hat; note the Mandrake-specific differences
- listed below,
-
- <bf> To update <tt>pnm2ppa</tt>
- in any recent Mandrake release (7.2 or later) from v1.04 to v1.10,
- the simplest procedure may be
- just to compile pnm2ppa from tarball source and replace the Mandake binaries
- <tt>/usr/bin/pnm2ppa</tt> and <tt>/usr/bin/calibrate_ppa</tt> with
- the new versions. They should function as drop-in replacements,
- with the same user interface, but improved image quality.
- (You may also wish to use the newer <tt>pnm2ppa.conf</tt> configuration
- file template).</bf>
-
-
-
-
-
- <itemize>
- <item> Mandrake 7.0 and earlier has incompatible and non-functional
- <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> support which must be replaced.
- Please use
- <tt>printtool</tt> to delete any installed PPA printers BEFORE
- upgrading <tt>rhs-printfilters</tt>. (If you forget to do this, and
- printtool will not start after the update, delete or move your
- <tt>/etc/printcap</tt> file.)
- Install the <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> RPM package.
- Then update <tt>rhs-printfilters</tt> with
- <tt>rhs-printfilters-1.58-4ppa5mdk.i386.rpm</tt>
- from
- <htmlurl
- url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa"
- name="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa">.
- (Do <bf>NOT</bf> use <tt>rhs-printfilters-1.57-4ppa4.i386.rpm</tt>
- which is for RedHat systems only.)
- <item>
- Mandrake-7.1 supplies a <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> RPM and has support for
- it in <tt>rhs-printfilters</tt>. Mandrake 7.1 has a configuration
- tool <tt>DrakConf</tt> for setting up printers, which may
- be an interface to <tt>printtool</tt>.
- Some users have reported difficulties with this. In that case, just use
- <tt>printtool</tt> to configure the printer.
- <item>
- Mandrake-7.2 does not have a separate <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> RPM package, but has
- added <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> to the <tt>ghostscript</tt> RPM package. This creates
- difficulties for updating <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> with the RPM package from
- <htmlurl
- url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa"
- name="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa">.
- You will get reported conflicts with <tt>ghostscript</tt>
- if you try to install the
- <tt>pnm2ppa-1.04-1.i386.rpm</tt> package,
- but it seems that you can
- safely use the rpm option <tt>--force</tt> to force its installation.
- Mandrake-7.2 also has moved to using CUPS as its printing system,
- and appears to now have its own printer configuration tool, but still
- includes <tt>pnm2ppa</tt> support in <tt>rhs-printfilters</tt>.
- </itemize>
- </article>
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