Re: [Printing-user-general] Olympus P11 printer

Thanks Matt,
The package manager doesn't seem to know what to do with the file.
I must say, it would be nice to have some guidance on the download site.
For us newbies to Linux anyway.
Thanks again.
Ron

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<mailman.25.1151779071.6330.printing-user-general@lists.freestandards.org>,
Matt Broughton <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> At 11:33 AM +0000 7/1/06, Ron Skingley wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I'm trying to get an Olympus P11 printer going.
> >I've downloaded gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3.tar.bz2 and gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3.U.dmg,
> >but no idea which one to use, or how to use it.
> >
> >I'm running Ubuntu 6.
> >
> The gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3.U.dmg is a binary installer for Intel and 
> PPC users of Mac OS X.
> 
> The gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3.tar.bz2 is the source code for the driver 
> package.  It would need to be compiled and installed.  I have played 
> a bit with the live version of Ubuntu on my Mac, but am not familiar 
> with what, if any, package manager is used.  Did you check on the 
> Ubuntu site for how to install software?  There well may be a 
> prebuilt binary that you can use.
> 
> Matt
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