| Installing the SuSE iPrint client under Debian | ||
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| Installing the SuSE iPrint client under Debian | ||
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| | Part X. Debian (sometimes also Ubuntu) | |
April 2008
The printserver page has a link to the client to install. Use it to download the Novell rpm package.
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The link is a scripted thing that determines your platform, so in order to download the client for platform X, you first have to install an OS and a browser on platform X. But see the next chapter for a solution. |
The “Cool Solution” suggested by Novell is to use the command alien -d --scripts iprint...rpm to convert the package to a .debpackage.
This disregards the fact that the resulting package is somewhat in conflict with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, in that it puts its files in /opt, which is for application software, whereas iPrint would belong in /usr.
However, we can still do it on a system that doesn't care.
We also need to install the libglitz package:
sudo apt-get install libglitz1
Now we install the beastie:
dpkg -i novell-iprint-xclient-sl_6.500.20070508-2_amd64.deb
Following a succesful installation, according to the above webpage, we need to issue a few commands (mainly to set environment variables):
./opt/novell/iprint/bin/iprint-gnome-init
./etc/profile.d/novell-iprint.sh
Now we can restart the browser, go to the printer lists, and add printers to our hearts' content.
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We must of course have rights to add printers to our local machine. |