Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Brian Durant <durant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 22:03, Anthony Moulen wrote:
- As to source, yes this is easy enough to come by, go to the CUPS site,
- download the latest CUPS source, go to the GIMPPRINT site on Sourceforge
- and - download the latest source there.  The instructions are straight
- forward and - pretty easy to follow.  The only issue is that you have to
- convince it to - compile the cups drivers for gimpprint when you compile
- that.  Other than - that it goes pretty smooth and once installed works
- great with the Epson C80 - and Epson 1270U Photo (which are the two printers
- I have from Epson). -
- And when I say convince, it is just a switch you have to pass to the
- ./configure process at the beginning and is documented by in ./configure
- --help and in the README file.

OK, I have downloaded cups 1.1.14, ghostscript 7.05.1 and gimp-print 4.3.0. 
Gimp-print is archived in tar.bz2 format. I have never come across this 
before. Do I just do a "tar xzvf"? Which of these three packages should be 
installed first? The install.txt doc in cups states:

Besides these tools you'll want the following libraries:

    - JPEG 6b or higher
    - PNG 1.0.6 or higher
    - TIFF 3.4 or higher
    - ZLIB 1.1.3 or higher

I found all of these on my system except "zlib". Nor could I find anything in 
the install.txt or readme.txt files that mentions the above noted special 
procedure to compile cups for gimp-print.

Cheers,

Brian