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Compiling HPLIP On Slackware
Long story short:
I got a new HP printer, it's too new for the hplip version on SBo, so I compiled the latest version I could find on HP's site, but the thing wouldn't print, though it did install correctly.
I had do this to get it to work:
make install put its files where cups wasn't looking for them. The cups logs said the hpps filter was missing. A quick symlink solved the problem:
nathan:~/temp/ross$ ls -lah /usr/lib64/cups/filter/hpps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Sep 7 09:31 /usr/lib64/cups/filter/hpps → /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpps*
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