On Monday 10 August 2009 02:56:23 Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:42:46 -0400, you wrote:
I think I got it to build by using "custom" rather than "automatic".
On a distribution that's based on rpm it's a bad idea to use self-compiled software if you don't at least use checkinstall install it as rpm. Otherwise the system dosn't know about your software and may, for instance, overwrite it with an older package.
Well....OK. I certainly agree with that. I bought a new HP printer and found I needed to install hplip from the HP Linux Imaging and Printing site. Had to specify OS, distribution, and edition etc. to get the proper software for that particular printer. It is a script, similar to the Nvidia installer. I don't think you could do a "checkinstall". The script just runs. Is there an RPM for hplip that covers my particular printer on SuSE 11.0 64 bit? If so, I would prefer to use that and uninstall (hopefully ??) the HP script. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org