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[John Ross Hunt <johnrosshunt@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> 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

Hi Brian, "tar xjvf" will unpack .tar.bz2 files.

"zlib" is actually "libz" in disguise. ;-)  You most likely have it on your
system since many programs depend on it.

Cheers,

-jrh