Re: [hpoj-devel] HP-OfficeJet G95 on Debian/GNU Linux?

[Obi-Wan <bv...@in...>]

>>   did anyone here successfully manage to get an OfficeJet working
>> on Debian? I tried installing the driver from
>> hpinkjet.sourceforge.net, but after I installed ghostscript-hpijs
>> on my box, gs stopped working completely... :(
>> 
>>   I *did* manage to get cups working with the cdj550 driver, but
>> that doesn't allow using duplex... :(
>> 
>> Any help on getting another driver to work (preferably one
>> supporting duplex printing), would be nice... ;)
>> 
>>   Benedikt
> 
> Hi, Benedikt.  I'm not familiar with setting up hpinkjet on Debian, so you
> may be better served by using the hpinkjet "help" forum.  I'm also CCing
> lin...@hp..., but the address you gave (hp...@he...) isn't valid.
> 
> If you tried to install the ghostscript-hpijs RPM onto Debian through alien,
> then that could be a problem.  In situations where binaries aren't available
> for your specific distribution, then you'd probably be better off building
> hpinkjet from source.

I managed to get HPIJS running on Debian 2.2 for my PSC 500 using the
DJ8xx driver.  I grabbed the source deb for gs-5.50 and then built
that with the mods described in the inkjetserver documentation.  Add
this to your /etc/apt/sources.list to grab the source:

deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main

I don't remember exactly all the hoops I jumped through, since it was
over a month ago, but I seem to recall it was pretty straightforward
once I got the source on my machine.  Holler if you've got specific
questions.

-- 
Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             ob...@je...
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