[SOLVED] Using other yum repos: advice needed

[cadfael]

I have an HP printer that I want to attach to my mythbackend server and then share out, so I can scan and print wirelessly from the couch in the next room.

So, today I started researching how this is done. A lot of the packages mentioned so far, such as gksu and gnome-cups-manager, don't appear to be in the standard mythdora repositories. My default install has the following yum repos configured (in /etc/yum.repos.d):

• fedora
• fedora-updates
• livna
• mythdora (actually atrpms)
• rpmfusion-free
• rpmfusion-free-updates
• rpmfusion-nonfree
• rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

I would prefer to use yum to manage my installations, because I don't want to spend all day and night resolving dependencies (I have spent enough time in dep hell, thanks). However I am also very wary of bringing any new repos into the mix because in the past this has led to problems where two repos have different versions of the same package, and the new one breaks something.

Does anyone have advice on how best to proceed? Until I figure this out I think I'm stuck. Thanks!

[waterhead]

You should be able to install all of the available cups packages, for Fedora, with the repositories that you have.

At least one of the things you are looking for, gksu is a Ubuntu application. This can't be installed on a Fedora based PC.

You can access the cups graphical administration program through a web browser. On the machine that is running the cups server, enter this address.

http://localhost:631/

After configuring the printer in the server, you can then access it from another PC by substituting localhost for the actual IP address of the PC. Without specific knowledge of the printer being used, I can only give general instructions. But to set up a remote printer, I would also install the cups server on the other PCs. Then you can use the IP address of the printer in the setup of the localhost server on each PC.

For my Dell printer(aka:Lexmark Z600), I use this address:

ipp://192.168.1.69:631/printers/Z600_Series

I see that I used ipp instead of http. I don't recall why, but either should work. The Z600_Series is the actual name I gave to the printer. The rest is the path to it.

[cadfael]

You should be able to install all of the available cups packages, for Fedora, with the repositories that you have.

Yes, as soon as you mentioned this I remembered how I set up printers in the past. I was able to install cups, hplip, etc. from these repos

However, setting up and administering the printer is supposed to be easiest using the Gnome CUPS manager.

Right now I can print, but everything I have read on this printer is that it should work "out of the box" with sane and so forth. If there is a point-and-drool option for setting this up I would prefer it to noodling around with cupsd and samba configs.

In any case, what's your take on the original question?
Should I find a repo that has the print manager in it and install it via yum, or should I try compiling it (and maintaining it) myself? What are my options here?

Thanks!

[waterhead]

I have never used (or needed) the gnome-cups-manager. I looked, and it isn't even available for my Ubuntu 9.04 install. I think that the project may have been abandoned.

I also don't have any windows boxes anymore, so I no longer use Samba. If I recall, sharing printers is pretty easy, just a few lines in the smb.conf file.

If you find maintaining an old application easier than just configuring it with the tools at hand, then go for it!

[cadfael]

I have never used (or needed) the gnome-cups-manager. I looked, and it isn't even available for my Ubuntu 9.04 install. I think that the project may have been abandoned.

I also don't have any windows boxes anymore, so I no longer use Samba. If I recall, sharing printers is pretty easy, just a few lines in the smb.conf file.

If you find maintaining an old application easier than just configuring it with the tools at hand, then go for it!

Turns out you were right...after about 10 minutes of noodling around with Samba this morning, I was able to get network printing up and running. Next up: network scanning. Thanks!