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I've got a Lexmark Z33 usb printer. There's not an open source driver for Cups to make it work, and Lexmark only provides drivers for Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse. The driver, in all cases, is an .sh file, and it uses the rpm package manager (It aborts the installation with a message saying it could not exec rpm -i etc etc etc...)
Should I install the rpm package manager to install the driver? I've got my backup ready to restore the system if something goes wrong.
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i suppose you could or you could try to use rpmunpack in unofficial to unpack the rpm and install from there.
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It's not a rpm file, it's a shell script. The binaries or rpm's are included in it.
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nao existe forma de conseguires os rpms sem ser pelo script ?
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GU/ d- s: a- C L U P+ L+++ E--- W+
N 0+ K- W-- !O !M V-- PS+ PE- V++ PGP T 5 Z+ R* TV+ B+
DI-- D- G-- e-- h! r++ z+ z*
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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No hay forma, amigo. Here's the link to the file, if someone wants to play with it.
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Should I install the rpm package manager to install the driver? I've got my backup ready to restore the system if something goes wrong.
It looks like you may need to. One other possibility (which may not work) is to locate the rpm which gets extracted before the install removes it (if it does remove it.) I've used a similar method for Java (IIRC) on a different system. For this to work, you need to ensure the script part of the file doesn't perform a 'critical' operation. Generally, the script portion is used to present the 'eula' and wait for confirmation It may even be possible to strip off the sh script portion and then unpack the rpm.
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Mmmh, tried to install the rpm package manager but ./configure fails for db3. Isn't db3 part of the db-4.0.14 package?
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no but you could temprarily install db3 in order to get the driver compiled/installed/whatever. you could install it to /tmp then removeit afterwards (see the PKGBUILD for evolution in the incoming directory on the ftp site as an example)
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