Hi,
I'm getting Sabayon 11 up and running on an i5-25000K with 16Gb of ram. I have a Canon Imageclass MF5950 dw printer on the local network. The printer is not supported in my CUPS install (1.6.1), but Canon has a driver. Unfortunately, the driver is in .rpm format. I want to be able to print to the printer. I have thought of a couple of options to solve this problem, but I need some help with each of them.

Option 1:
I have alien installed. I did not see an option to convert the driver to gentoo format. If that is supported, then the rest is simple. If it is, what format should I choose for a gentoo package?

Option 2:
The install file contains the .ppd files which I think that CUPS could use. Is there a way that I can just take these .ppd files, put them somewhere and then configure CUPS to use them?

Option 3:
The installer comes with **source code** (the holy grail!!!). Does it make sense to try to compile the code? I haven't looked at the code, because I'm not sure that this is a good option.

If any of the above options can be used, please provide me with the basic steps to make it happen. If there is a better way (the gutenprint database is installed, I checked) would someone please tell me what it is? (buying another printer is not an option)

Many thanks,

Mark

Be aware of rpm2targz, which is as good as it's name
For Option 1:
Pass. That's a technical distro question :-).

For Option 2:
http://localhost:631, and choose the ppd? Better put it somewhere sensible first. That _may be

/usr/share/cups/model or
/usr/share/ghostscript/ <blah> / <blah>...

For option 3:
If the software has a configure and / or a makefile, go for it.