Hello,

I have a win98 server type machine with a USB Lexmark Z25 printer attached, works fine printing from that or another winxp machine via network.

I have just installed Xandros 2.0 on another machine, i have got it networking fine, i can see the server's shared files and the printer.

I have tried to use the Xandros wizard to set up the printer, but the Z25 is not available, if i use something like Z23 it will just print out a blank page.....

I went to the Lexmark website and downloaded linux drivers (CJLZ35LE-CUPS-2.0-1.TAR.GZ)
and following instructions in read me:

and get the following error:

Any help much appreciated, i'm pretty much a newbie with this.

Cheers
Delph

I'm having the exact same problem with the exact same printer :-(

It seems like you need to have tcl + tcllib + tk installed ... but this does not solve all the problems, coz i still get the error:

[root@dhcppc10 Desktop]# sh lex*
Verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Lexmark Printer Driver............
./install: line 15: ./xlexinstall: No such file or directory
The program returned an error code (127)

Plz... anyone know that answer or have a good tip how to solve this issue?

/rune

solve the problem yourself and get a lot wiser :-)

Okay, by now you should already have installed the tcllib, tcl & tk rpm's, if you don't have these then go to rpmseek.com and download them, then install them before doing anything else.

Now open a console and go to the location of the lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.gz.sh file and do this:

sh lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.gz.sh -keep -target "whatever"

now you have extracted the files in the lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.gz.sh archive to a "whatever" folder

open a console and log in as root and and go to the "whatever" folder

chmod 777 inst*

now open the install file in an editor, go change

./xlexinstall

to

./lexinstall (just like 2 lines above)

save the install file and run it as root, go through all the steps of the installation, go to you printer configuration panel i KDE (or whatever) and change your default print to Z35 and try to print a test page.

This worked fine for me, guess Lexmark did a real crappy work on this installation.

Congrats on successfully solving the problem runelolk, and thanks for posting back with the solution. It will be helpful to future readers. -- J.W.

hi there

I'd like to share with you how I solved the problem:

I did

sh lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.gz.sh -keep -target "whatever"

as described before,
edited the file but it did not work as expected, then removed the error dumping to /dev/null to see whether there was an error:

gcc -o lexinstall $LIBTCL lexinstall.c
gcc -o xlexinstall $LIBTCL $LIBTK xlexinstall.c

which gave me lots of error messages. Don't know whats wrong, maybe the libtk and libtlc packages are not compatible with what the install scripts expects.
(in case anyone interested, I run SuSE 9.0 and have libtk8.4 and libtcl8.4)

so I tried to do the following in the same directory:
rpm -i z35llpddk-2.0-2.i386.rpm
rpm -i lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.i386.rpm

which just worked out fine for me!