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<h1 class="title">Red Hat 8/9 How-To</h1>
<p><em>Note</em>: This process has been tested with Red Hat 8 and Red Hat 9. May work with other version of Red Hat (Enterprise, etc)</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Install RH8/RH9 Workstation to get gcc development tools. Or use the RH8/RH9
Package Manager to install the Development Tools.</li>
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<pre class="literal-block">
*Gnome Menu
*System Settings
*Packages
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="2">
<li>Goto the "Development" section, Click "Details" next to "Development Tools.
Ensure the following packages are installed:</li>
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<pre class="literal-block">
automake14
automake15
cvs
diffstat
dmalloc
doxygen
gcc-g77
gcc-gnat
gcc-java
indent
ltrace
memprof
patchutils
rcs
splint
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="3">
<li>Use the RH8 Package Manager and install CUPS under Printing Support.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
*Gnome Menu
*System Settings
*Packages
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="4">
<li>Go to the "System" section, click "Details" next to Printing Support.
Ensure the following package is installed:</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
Cups
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="5">
<li>Start the cupsd daemon:</li>
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<pre class="literal-block">
su
/etc/init.d/cups start
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="6">
<li>Install cups-devel. RPM is on RH8 CD #2</li>
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<pre class="literal-block">
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
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<p><em>Note</em>: cd-rom may mount in a different directory. Should be something similiar however.</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
rpm -ivh cups-devel-1.1.15-10.i386.rpm
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="7">
<li>Install sane-backends-devel. RPM is on RH8 CD #2.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -ivh sane-backends-devel-1.0.8-5.i386.rpm
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="8">
<li>Update libusb from 0.1.6 to 0.1.8.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
wget http://hplip.sf.net/libusb-0.1.8.tar.gz
tar xzvf libusb-0.1.8.tar.gz
cd libusb-0.1.8
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
su
make install
rm /usr/lib/libusb.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.4.4.0 /usr/lib/libusb.so
exit
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="9">
<li>Update xsane from 0.84 to 0.96 (actually 0.92 or higher will work).</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
wget http://hplip.sf.net/xsane-0.96.tar.gz
tar xzvf xsane-0.96.tar.gz
cd xsane-0.96
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
su
make install
exit
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="10">
<li>Build hplip with no network and no fax support. Use hplip-1.6.6a or
newer.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
tar xvfz hplip-1.6.6a.0.tar.gz
cd hplip-1.6.6a.0
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-network-build --disable-fax-build
make
su
</pre>
<p><em>Note</em>: do not exit root until after step 11.</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
make install
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="11">
<li>Start HPLIP daemons.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
/etc/init.d/hplip start
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="12">
<li>Libusb replaces the "printer" kernel module, so we must blacklist
the "printer" kernel module so it will not be loaded during USB hotplug
events. This also means only libusb printer drivers will work when the
"printer" kernel module is removed.</li>
</ol>
<ol class="loweralpha simple">
<li>Add "alias printer off" line to /etc/modules.conf.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
Run from terminal:
su
gedit /etc/modules.conf
Add to the bottom of the file:
"alias printer off"
Save, Exit
</pre>
<ol class="loweralpha simple" start="2">
<li>Add "printer" line to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
Run from terminal:
su
gedit /etc/hotplug/blacklist
Add to the bottom of the file:
"printer"
Save, Exit
</pre>
<ol class="loweralpha simple" start="3">
<li>Run:</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
su
/sbin/rmmod printer
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="13">
<li>Restart cupsd so that it will see new the USB printer.</li>
</ol>
<pre class="literal-block">
/etc/init.d/cups restart
exit
</pre>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="14">
<li>To continue proceed to <a class="reference" href="../install/step4/index.html">Step 4</a>.</li>
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