CUPS and LaserJet Series II (LaserJet 2)

Okay, now I have a clean RedHat 9 installed on my soon-to-be server.

The probelm? I want to print to my old LaserJet 2.

The solution? CUPS. (Common Unix Printing System)

The problem? Hah, like most things Linux, it doesn't install easily.

Out of the box, CUPS printing to a LJ2 does not work. I get bizarre scrawls on the page. Googling for info on this reveals that this is indeed the case.

The solution? Some say "Install the gimp-print" driver.

Easy? NO!

So I go to install gimp-print. Install dies, says I need to install foomatic. I thought it was there, but the system doesn't believe it is. Whatever. Foomatic has four parts to it. I install them in the recommended order. During the install of foomatic-db-engine-3.0.0 errors kick up indicating xmllib cannot be found I google for a solution, and get... ./configure --disable-xmltest I rerun the configure, make, make install It kicks up a ton of bad messages, but they do not say "Error (2)" so I figure it is good and continue. back to installing gimp-print. ./configure fails. I try autoconf. okay. I try make Make says I do not have GTK. But I know I have GTK! Whatever. Make dies. error 2. fine. lets try this. ./configure --with-cups --with-ghostscript --with-foomatic And it dies. configure: error: Cannot find ijs-config; please ensure Ghostscript 6.53 or above is installed I have already installed Ghostscript! Stupid thing... I've done this before, so I will do it again. rpm -F ghostscript-7.07.1-0.i386.rpm (that should Freshen (the -F) the ghostscript package up to the version in the .rpm I downloaded. That goes fine. To verify, I run rpm -U ghostscript-7.07.1-0.i386.rpm and it says ghostscript 7.07.1-0 is installed already. Good.