[SOLVED] Installing Lexmark Z645 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

[rokytnji]

Installed alien printconf. and everything looked good except this:

Setting up printconf (0.7.7ubuntu1) ...
Unable to read printer database. Please ensure the "foomatic-db" package is
installed properly.

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

[rokytnji]

Also should I move the lexmark folder back over to Home Folder?

[rokytnji]

Here is the whole readout if it can clarify matters:


ry@harry-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install alien printconf
[sudo] password for harry:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
alien is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
foomatic-db-gutenprint ijsgutenprint libijs-0.35 python-foomatic python-ipy
Suggested packages:
foomatic-gui
The following NEW packages will be installed:
foomatic-db-gutenprint ijsgutenprint libijs-0.35 printconf python-foomatic
python-ipy
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2811kB of archives.
After this operation, 51.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:4 Index of / hardy/universe python-ipy 1:0.55+1-1 [29.0kB]
Get:5 Index of / hardy/universe python-foomatic 0.7.7ubuntu1 [19.0kB]
Get:6 Index of / hardy/universe printconf 0.7.7ubuntu1 [15.7kB]
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package libijs-0.35.
(Reading database ... 161780 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libijs-0.35 (from .../libijs-0.35_0.35-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ijsgutenprint.
Unpacking ijsgutenprint (from .../ijsgutenprint_5.0.2-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package foomatic-db-gutenprint.
Unpacking foomatic-db-gutenprint (from .../foomatic-db-gutenprint_5.0.2-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-ipy.
Unpacking python-ipy (from .../python-ipy_1%3a0.55+1-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-foomatic.
Unpacking python-foomatic (from .../python-foomatic_0.7.7ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package printconf.
Unpacking printconf (from .../printconf_0.7.7ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Setting up libijs-0.35 (0.35-3) ...

Setting up ijsgutenprint (5.0.2-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up foomatic-db-gutenprint (5.0.2-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-ipy (1:0.55+1-1) ...

Setting up python-foomatic (0.7.7ubuntu1) ...

Setting up printconf (0.7.7ubuntu1) ...
Unable to read printer database. Please ensure the "foomatic-db" package is
installed properly.

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
harry@harry-desktop:~$

[oz]

Ok, so you now have alien and printconf installed along with some dependencies.

Now you should be able to follow the steps outlined in either HowTo in order to get your printer drivers installed and printer configured.

If you are working in a terminal with the xserver running (inside of Gnome, in other words) your best bet would be to simply copy/paste the commands into the terminal provided the file names in the commands are all named exactly like the names in your particular files. Otherwise, you'll need to type them into the terminal making sure each letter has the proper case (lower/upper).

[rokytnji]

OZ , what should I do with the lemark folder on the desktop?

[oz]

If you have two lexmark folders you can delete the empty one, then change (cd) into the directory containing the downloaded tarball file to run your commands.

[rokytnji]

Got sor far as to restart CUPS and hit a brick wall again. Here:

harry@harry-desktop:~$ cd lexmark
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz
COPYING
README
z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz
globals.tcl
install
lexinstall
lexinstall.tcl
license
setup.tcl
testpage
usb.tcl
xlexinstall
xlexinstall.tcl
z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
Warning: alien is not running as root!
Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong.
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package z600cups: postinst postrm preinst
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
z600cups-1.0.tgz generated
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
Warning: alien is not running as root!
Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong.
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package z600llpddk: postinst postrm preinst prerm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
z600llpddk-2.0.tgz generated
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /
[sudo] password for harry:
./
./usr/
./usr/include/
./usr/include/lexmark/
./usr/include/lexmark/cartridgemanager.h
./usr/include/lexmark/printerdevice.h
./usr/include/lexmark/printjobmanager.h
./usr/include/lexmark/alignmentdata.h
./usr/include/lexmark/cleaningdata.h
./usr/include/lexmark/clock.h
./usr/include/lexmark/portmonitor.h
./usr/include/lexmark/linuxinkjetprinter.h
./usr/include/lexmark/mediamanager.h
./usr/include/lexmark/errorcommunicator.h
./usr/include/lexmark/cartridgeuserinterface.h
./usr/local/
./usr/local/z600llpddk/
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/bnsi3.lut
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/lxbcalgn.out
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/bnsi2.lut
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/bnsi1.lut
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/lxbccln.out
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/liblexz600core.la
./usr/lib/liblexprintjob.la
./usr/lib/liblexz600core.so.0.0.0
./usr/lib/liblexprintjob.so.0.0.0
./usr/lib/liblexprinter.a
./usr/lib/liblexprinter.so.0.0.0
./usr/lib/liblexprinter.la
./usr/lib/liblexz600core.a
./usr/lib/liblexprintjob.a
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C /
./
./usr/
./usr/share/
./usr/share/cups/
./usr/share/cups/model/
./usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/cups/
./usr/lib/cups/backend/
./usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
./usr/lib/cups/filter/
./usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ sudo ldconfig
harry@harry-desktop:~/lexmark$ cd /usr/share/cups/model
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/share/cups/model$ /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart
bash: /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys: No such file or directory
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/share/cups/model$

[oz]

They might have changed the way CUPS restarts since the howto was written, but you can also restart cups with a machine reboot.

[rokytnji]

Checked back over the steps and read the replies in the link Ubuntu forums and from what I can see I'm done with the install and can reboot like you said. I wasn;t the only 1 that got error message about running alien not as root. Gonna power down now and see what happens next. Wish me luck.

[oz]

Ubuntu uses sudo rather than an enabled root account for system administration:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...in-ubuntu.html

I think that confuses alien a bit.