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

Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:10:18 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.printing.general
Organization LinuxPrinting.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You must execute "make install" as root.

   Till


Ron Skingley wrote:
> Yes, but the make install come up with errors, so I thought I must be doing
> something wrong.
> Errors are:
> 
> Making install in include
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/ron/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3/incl ude'
> Making install in gutenprint
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/ron/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3/incl ude/gutenprint'
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/ron/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3/incl ude/gutenprint'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/usr/local/include/gutenprint" || mkdir -p --
> "/usr/local/include/guten print"
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/include/gutenprint': Permission
> denie d
> make[3]: *** [install-nodist_pkgincludeHEADERS] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/ron/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3/inclu de/gutenprint'
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/ron/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3/inclu de/gutenprint'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/ron/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3/inclu de'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> ron@newone:~/Downloads/Print/gutenprint-5.0.0-rc3$
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron
> 
> In article <[email protected]>, Till Kamppeter <[email protected]>
> writes:
> 
>>Have you already read the README file which is in the package?
>>
>>   Till
>>
>>
>>Ron Skingley wrote:
>>
>>>I've now managed, by clicking on files (more luck than judgement) to run a
>>>configure and make. But the P11 still doesn't appear on the list when I do
> 
> a
> 
>>>'new printer' and select 'Olympus' as the make.
>>>Is there something else I need to do?
>>>
>>>Thanks for all your help.
>>>
>>>Ron
>>>
>>>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Ron
>>>Skingley) writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>In article
>>>><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
>>>>>-- 
>>>>>Matt Broughton
>>>>>Only relatives are absolute.
>>>>>