Jump to Debian - Puppy can install Debian packages with some tweaking. As these packages are made for other linux distributions and not puppy. Puppy Linux can be installed like other Linux distros, but it's not really its strength. If what you want is a lightweight Linux distro with a low-resource window manager, then Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Crunchbang or a minimal Debian install will all be e.
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For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own. To receive this Complete Guide absolutely free. Hi, I am unable to get my Puppy 4.1 to print anything at all - and have searched the Puppy sites without much success. Where I thought there was a solution - the processes described were way too complex for me. Best I could find was the possible use of printer drivers available as deb files.
I have a Canon Pixma i4500 printer that I have managed to make work acceptably in Ubuntu Hardy using the following deb files: 1) cnijfilter-common2.80-1i386.deb 2) cnijfilter-ip4500series2.80-1i386.deb I have also managed to get acceptable printing from my Fedora 9 using the rpm versions of the above files. I would appreciate any help on how I can convert these files into something that can be used as printer drivers for Puppy 4.1 in CUPS.
Thanks murthy. You can unpack those files and decide for yourself what to do with all the files. For example: cd mkdir printerfiles cd printerfiles mkdir common cd common ar x /path/to/cnijfilter-common2.80-1i386.deb That should produce the files: debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz tar xvf control.tar.gz Should produce: md5sums postinst preinst prerm postrm conffiles control The 'preinst' and 'postinst' are scripts which do some setup operations before and after installing If you unpack data.tar.gz you should get a directory heirarchy containing the executables, libraries, man pages, and so on. You can rummage through that to get an idea of what files are there and what you should do with them. One important thing if you have executables is to check all dependencies and make sure they will be met; otherwise you will be wasting your time doing all this unpacking and copying. Guessing a little here (as in I am not going to try it out).
Download the source (looks like you can skip that). Lets say they are in /usr/src go to the source (cd /usr/src) unpack the tarball (tar xvf cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.tar.gz) cd cnijfilter-common-2.80 faff around for a while wondering why there are no documents to read. Finally decide to look in./ppd (cups uses ppd's as definition files) Read INSTALL follow the instructions (here I'm just replicating what they say)./autogen.sh -prefix=/usr -program-suffix=ip4500 sudo make install I'm now assuming you should be able to install the printer using CUPS, and tell cups to use the newly generated ppd file (I guess it's in /usr somewhere - try 'find / -type f -name '.ppd'). Thanks for all the help. But right now I have a different problem I think - my printer not is being detected at all. All my other usb devices seem to be detected (inc a scanner which is not Linux compliant)- but the printer doesn't show up at all - despite switching usb ports around.
Fedora/Ubuntu at least used to print out blank sheets of paper until I got the correct drivers installed!! Going thru process of uninstalling CUPS and re-installing and checking for connectivity before I attempt what has been suggested. Update - have reinstalled Puppy, and usb printer detected and able to print blank sheets! Unpacked the tarball cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.tar.gz.gz, and have a ppd for the iP4500. Unfortunately couldn't build it with: './autogen.sh -prefix=/usr -program-suffix=ip4500 sudo make install' as suggested. Error says I don't have 'autoconf' and 'automake' and get from. But there are lots of 'automake' and 'autoconf' files there - not certain which is the right one or if any will do.
Downloaded and installed Cups 1.3.3 - and this seemed to have the option to specify a ppd file. But there is a lot wrong with the new Cups - cannot print test page etc, and no ouputs. So back to square 1.
Will give this a little bit of rest for the moment!! Will try, but have a bit more work to do.
What I thought was the iP4500 ppd from the tarball extract appears to be a pretty small file (14KB) and viewing as text it suggests its an add-on. The Canon.ppd file that is provided in Puppy is an 85KB file.
This ppd driver seems to be effective whatever Canon model printer is chosen selected in Cups. I checked my Ubuntu files, and the iP4500 file is a full 87KB - this is closer to the 85KB Canon.ppd file in Puppy. I opened up the deb files as suggested by pinniped - and he was right.
There is a whole bunch of files in data.tar.gz. I can only assume that apt-get builds the iP4500.ppd in some fashion from the deb files, and distributes the others to the right places in the system.
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All this is way over my head - a good point to give up!! Thanks for all the help!! Will try, but have a bit more work to do. What I thought was the iP4500 ppd from the tarball extract appears to be a pretty small file (14KB) and viewing as text it suggests its an add-on. The Canon.ppd file that is provided in Puppy is an 85KB file.
This ppd driver seems to be effective whatever Canon model printer is chosen selected in Cups. I checked my Ubuntu files, and the iP4500 file is a full 87KB - this is closer to the 85KB Canon.ppd file in Puppy. I opened up the deb files as suggested by pinniped - and he was right.
There is a whole bunch of files in data.tar.gz. I can only assume that apt-get builds the iP4500.ppd in some fashion from the deb files, and distributes the others to the right places in the system. All this is way over my head - a good point to give up!! Thanks for all the help!! I thought I would give it one more go!! Took the two deb files I used in Ubuntu (mentioned in my first post) extracted the directories, and generally followed procedures in and created two pet files that I installed using PET Package Manager, and saw that the driver was actually listed in the selections available. Unfortunately I must have messed up something somewhere, and I couldn't actually install and give an 'client-error' code.
For that matter I couldn't actually install even the previous drivers available, with the same error code. No paw prints on my printer yet!!