On Thursday 01 Sep 2005 11:46 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
The help and efforts put in by you and Rajen prompted me to move my butt and reconfigure my printer. The first problem is that the LPRng and apsfilter don't exist in the Mandrake 10.1.
many things dont exist on many distros. Procedure to be followed is: 1. check the cds if the app you want is there else 2. look for rpms for the app and your distro on the net else 3. download the source and install from source option 3 is *always* available, and installation from source is usually very simple: 1. unpack the package (tar -xvzf) 2. run ./configure 3. make 4. make install
the only thing to worry about is default installation path. Most packages by default go to /usr/local, but mandrake prefers /usr. This is solved by giving the 'prefix option' to configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr
check the README and INSTALL files for exact syntax