HPLIP

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HPLIP, or how to get HP printers to work with K12LTSP CentOS 5 (and with CentOS 5/RHEL5 in general)

HPLIP error messages during install are unclear, misspelled, but well intended. This worked for me to get around missing dependencies to get the HP printers working:

• You may have to activate centos.karan.org and rpmforge yum repos
• Download hplip.run from http://hplip.sf.net
• yum -y install gcc-c++ python-devel openssl-devel cups-devel libusb-devel libtool libjpeg\* libnet net-snmp net-snmp-devel python-ctypes libtiff-devel libpng-devel sane-devel dbus-devel
• Install cupsddk from the Cups website (rpm). Unpack; ./configure; make; make install
• Still missing: dbus-python-devel (does not yet exist for CentOS 5); pil; reportlab. Weird, because python-reportlab is installed by default. Devel-package missing? Anyway, faxing will not work.

I forgot to deinstall the k12ltsp included hplip package before installing hplip 2.8.5, but received no further error messages. Happy printing!