H(ocus)P(ocus) printer software has never worked well for me. I dislike it intensely. A friend, however, has a Deskjet D1660 he would like me to get up and running for him.

I installed antiX_M8.5_i486 on his old Compaq Presario 5150 (replete with AMD K6-2 350MHz, 128MB PC-100 RAM and 5.25" eight GB hdd) AFTER upgrading RAM to 512MB, HDD to 20GB and changing the CD-rom to DVD-rom, keeping the original K6-2 CPU. He is also running antiX_M8.5_i686 on a PIII Dell with 512MB PC-133 and Ti-4400 GPU he keeps continuously online and has done so since May without a hitch! Anyway, he wants a working printer and came up with the Deskjet D1660 for the Compaq to be used by his son for schoolwork, as well.

Has anyone here at antiX freeforums successfully installed the tarball from HP, hplip-3.10.9.tar.gz, and had it work well and/or for any length of time? I cannot seem to get past the < make > (which returns with a fatal error -- don't ask me the error verbatim -- I cannot tell you) after installing all dependencies put forth in the webpage
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros//debian.html"
linktext was:"http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/in ... ebian.html"
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.

Which leads me to the question -- are the listed dependencies for Debian 5.0x adequate for antiX 8.5 i486/i686? Why, when I go to
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://localhost:631"
linktext was:"http://localhost:631"
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in my browser is only the deprecated hpij (?) listed?

If you installed HPLIP and made it work, how'd you do it?
Any help much appreciated.

I have installed hplip from the repositories, should just be there after reloading and searching"hplip" using synaptic or"apt-get update""apt-get -f install hplip". if that is not there for you the reason you cannot get past make is because you need to install a package called"glib6-dev", this can be done by searching in synaptic or"apt-get update""apt-get -f install glibc6-dev".

It seems that they assume you have these packages because they are not the only ones not to list them in the dependencies. Other than that, from an install via the repositories all seems to work fine, there are generally 2 hplip drivers after install that apply to your printer. All I can say is that it is pretty much a 50/50 chance that you choose the right one, if you have the wrong one it will all seem to work but the page will be blank. Choose the other driver and it should print, unless you have incorectly set the page defaults. ( grayscale for only a black cartridge )

Edit: the hpij drivers have never worked for me but are always brought in with the install of hplip, not sure why.

Thank you, Dave for your suggestions. The printer is now functioning!

I could not find"glib6-dev" so I did a <apt-get build-dep hplip> then installed hplip. This took a while on this slow machine, but it got the job done.

After checking to see that the printer worked, an
<apt-get autoremove> resulted in only one file,"libdes425-3" being removed.

It's good to be back with antiX, a very well-maintained distro!
Hello again, anticapitalista, oldhoghead, siverbear, eriefisher, secipolla, et al!

Hello SaminBare,

Welcome Back, nice to see you here again, glad you got the printer going, in the future keep in mind that you can install some things from the meta-installer, including hplip.

cheers,
ohh

Will do, oldhoghead (try to remember, that is, as I'm getting CRS)

Thought you would enjoy a photo of our efforts' fruition, if I can get it to upload.