installing offical HP printer driver

linuxmandrake · 09-19-2005, 02:58 PM

It wont flippin even compile under debian (2.6.8.11 amd64 kernel).
It keeps conplaining about not being able to find libjpeg support

Also can someone recommend some urls (UK) for apt because I didn't setup apt to use the internet as debian didn't detect my network card so I thought I wouldn't have access to the internet. But it worked striaght out of the box lucky!!

Dead Parrot · 09-19-2005, 05:09 PM

Setting up apt:

# apt-setup

Finding libjpeg support:

$ apt-cache search libjpeg

tommilo · 10-14-2005, 07:13 PM

Dead Parrot - That was great advice and to the point. I ran into the same error the other user did while trying to get the HP printer support installed, but your suggestion did the trick. Thank you!

spooon · 10-14-2005, 07:37 PM

You shouldn't need to compile anything; you can install hpijs with "apt-get install hpijs" and you can install hplip with "apt-get install hplip", etc.

linuxmandrake · 10-15-2005, 04:35 AM

It's ok guys I installed it now. I needed this other package which was a device driver for my printer. Before I installed it my printer wasn't listed within the cups web interface.

samael26 · 10-15-2005, 04:45 AM

Hi,
I usually do "apt-get install hpijs".

cheers

Tons of Fun · 10-15-2005, 08:12 AM

As some of you know, I had a really difficult time getting the HP printers to work with Debian. It seems that I would get so far, and run into another barrier. This was one of them. Every time I got an error that Debian was looking for something, I did an #apt-cache search "dependency", find what I am looking for, install it, and move on to the next challenge. Now that is the first thing I do when trying to install something and 90% of the time it finds what I need. Man I love the command line!.