gjtomli Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 I have been reading about other HP printers on the forum and found many resources at linuxprinting.org but I am stuck!!!! I cannot get my HP LJ 4+ to print anything. I am running Mandriva 10.2 and configure computer sees the printer and says that it is installed but apparantly you have install special drivers from HP. Excuse my ignorance but I have just come from using windows for 17+ years and am a little on the dumb side. I have been using this as a guide but I get stuck at the ./configure --prefix-/usr command. It doesn't do anything. HP printer linux install Help!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 I've used HP 4 printers without any problems (albeit a 4000), but they're the same technology and the driver is pretty much the same whether a HP 4, 4+, and so on. Have you got cups installed? Where is the printer connected? In my situation, I was printing across a Windows share. Also, check your BIOS and make sure that Plug and Play isn't set to "OS" as this can cause problems with Linux detecting such things, especially printers. You shouldn't need to use anything from HP's website, the drivers are all within cups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 in case you really want to install the drivers, how did you do that? have you logged into your system as root user? if not, you won't be allowed by the system to install the driver as /usr is only write-accessible to root, not to normal users. when you install, using the terminal, i am almost sure you got an error message. please repeat what you did and post the error message in here in case that you are unable to install the driver although you are logged in as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 I have been using this as a guide but I get stuck at the ./configure --prefix-/usr command. It doesn't do anything. Of course it doesn't. The correct command (under a non-root shell) is actually ./configure --prefix=/usr But I'm pretty sure you do not have to compile anything to make this printer working- just install CUPS and the necessary backend via URPMI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjtomli Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) Okay... that comand worked I moved the drivers arround in printerdrake and it worked.... thanks a ton. Stupid hp...had the a typo in the command!!!! Edited June 7, 2005 by gjtomli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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