<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LinuxDoc-Tools 0.9.16"> <TITLE>PPA Printer-Support RPM Packages for MANDRAKE Linux distributions.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Next Previous Contents <HR> <H1>PPA Printer-Support RPM Packages for MANDRAKE Linux distributions.</H1> <H2>The pnm2ppa project team <A HREF="mailto:ppa-rpms@sourceforge.net">ppa-rpms@users.sourceforge.net</A></H2>v0.2 June 11, 2002 <HR> <EM>Information about using pnm2ppa with Mandrake. (Updated for pnm2ppa-1.04 and later.)</EM> <HR> <P><B> Mandrake-specific issues.</B></P> <P>See the document <A HREF="file:INSTALL.REDHAT.html">INSTALL.REDHAT.html</A> for installation and setup. That document is written for Red Hat; note the Mandrake-specific differences listed below,</P> <P><B> To update <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> 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 <CODE>/usr/bin/pnm2ppa</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/bin/calibrate_ppa</CODE> 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 <CODE>pnm2ppa.conf</CODE> configuration file template).</B></P> <P> <UL> <LI> Mandrake 7.0 and earlier has incompatible and non-functional <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> support which must be replaced. Please use <CODE>printtool</CODE> to delete any installed PPA printers BEFORE upgrading <CODE>rhs-printfilters</CODE>. (If you forget to do this, and printtool will not start after the update, delete or move your <CODE>/etc/printcap</CODE> file.) Install the <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> RPM package. Then update <CODE>rhs-printfilters</CODE> with <CODE>rhs-printfilters-1.58-4ppa5mdk.i386.rpm</CODE> from <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa</A>. (Do <B>NOT</B> use <CODE>rhs-printfilters-1.57-4ppa4.i386.rpm</CODE> which is for RedHat systems only.)</LI> <LI>Mandrake-7.1 supplies a <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> RPM and has support for it in <CODE>rhs-printfilters</CODE>. Mandrake 7.1 has a configuration tool <CODE>DrakConf</CODE> for setting up printers, which may be an interface to <CODE>printtool</CODE>. Some users have reported difficulties with this. In that case, just use <CODE>printtool</CODE> to configure the printer.</LI> <LI>Mandrake-7.2 does not have a separate <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> RPM package, but has added <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> to the <CODE>ghostscript</CODE> RPM package. This creates difficulties for updating <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> with the RPM package from <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa</A>. You will get reported conflicts with <CODE>ghostscript</CODE> if you try to install the <CODE>pnm2ppa-1.04-1.i386.rpm</CODE> package, but it seems that you can safely use the rpm option <CODE>--force</CODE> 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 <CODE>pnm2ppa</CODE> support in <CODE>rhs-printfilters</CODE>.</LI> </UL> </P> <HR> Next Previous Contents </BODY> </HTML>