PPA Printer-Support RPM Packages for MANDRAKE Linux distri- butions. The pnm2ppa project team ppa-rpms@users.sourceforge.net v0.2 June 11, 2002 Information about using pnm2ppa with Mandrake. (Updated for pnm2ppa-1.04 and later.) Mandrake-specific issues. See the document INSTALL.REDHAT.html for installation and setup. That document is written for Red Hat; note the Mandrake-specific differences listed below, To update pnm2ppa 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 /usr/bin/pnm2ppa and /usr/bin/calibrate_ppa 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 pnm2ppa.conf configuration file template). o Mandrake 7.0 and earlier has incompatible and non-functional pnm2ppa support which must be replaced. Please use printtool to delete any installed PPA printers BEFORE upgrading rhs- printfilters. (If you forget to do this, and printtool will not start after the update, delete or move your /etc/printcap file.) Install the pnm2ppa RPM package. Then update rhs-printfilters with rhs-printfilters-1.58-4ppa5mdk.i386.rpm from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa. (Do NOT use rhs- printfilters-1.57-4ppa4.i386.rpm which is for RedHat systems only.) o Mandrake-7.1 supplies a pnm2ppa RPM and has support for it in rhs- printfilters. Mandrake 7.1 has a configuration tool DrakConf for setting up printers, which may be an interface to printtool. Some users have reported difficulties with this. In that case, just use printtool to configure the printer. o Mandrake-7.2 does not have a separate pnm2ppa RPM package, but has added pnm2ppa to the ghostscript RPM package. This creates difficulties for updating pnm2ppa with the RPM package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa. You will get reported conflicts with ghostscript if you try to install the pnm2ppa-1.04-1.i386.rpm package, but it seems that you can safely use the rpm option --force 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 pnm2ppa support in rhs-printfilters.