Can't satisfy dependencies for hplip-2.7.10

Installing on RHEL AS 4.0 can work..although it can be a struggle. I've created some docs here;

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/distros/redhatenterprise.html

but they may be outdated and I'll be working on updating them coming soon.

Although you could try the server install:

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/tarball_install.html

And look under the section "HPIJS Portability Reference".

Hope this helps..

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Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your prompt response. Buoyed by your comments, and by the
statement on the installation pages that 'This process has been tested
on RHEL AS 4.0', I have spent an enormous amount of time trying to
install hplip on my RHEL 4 box, without success. If/when you ever update
these pages, I'd love to see what I'm doing wrong. It would be really
helpful to know exactly what versions of the various programs are
required for installation --- the information posted at
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/system_requirements.html isn't accurate
(e.g., Python 2.4 is needed if PyQt 3.14 is to be installed).

Here are the details of what I've tried, fyi.

As stated in the notes at the http://hplip.sourceforge.net, installation
of hplip is impossible without version 3.14 of PyQt (the RH4 version is
3.13). Installation of PyQt-3.14 requires version 2.4 of Python (the RH
4 version is 2.3.4).

So, I did an altinstall of Python 2.4.4 from source, creating
/usr/local/bin/python2.4. Attempts to install PyQt-3.14 using
'./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.4 etc.' failed
because there was 'No module named sipconfig'. I then tried to install
a more recent version of sip (RH4 has sip-4.1-1), using 'python2.4
configure.py'. This led to an error about the TMAKEPATH environment not
being set. Since 'tmake' was not installed, I installed it, and numerous
errors about absent or incorrectly located configuration files ensued.

So I am no closer to having hplip installed than I was ten hours of
keyboard time ago!

-Paul

Aaron Albright wrote:
> Your question #17993 on HPLIP changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/17993
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Aaron Albright proposed the following answer:
> Installing on RHEL AS 4.0 can work..although it can be a struggle. I've
> created some docs here;
>
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/distros/redhatenterprise.html
>
> but they may be outdated and I'll be working on updating them coming
> soon.
>
> Although you could try the server install:
>
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/tarball_install.html
>
> And look under the section "HPIJS Portability Reference".
>
> Hope this helps..
>
> A
>
>

Sorry about your experience. I'll need to do some further testing with RHEL. Although for now you should be able to do the server install of hplip using the docs here:

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/tarball_install.html

Under 'HPIJS Portability Reference'.

This will give you direction on installing without the gui interface. You'll loose hp-toolbox and other gui features but I hope it will help to get you printing for now.

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