hplip 2.7.12 not installing on centos 5.1

Asked by Anne Wilson

I am trying to install hplip onto a new CentOS 5.1 system, without success. It ends with

INSTALL MISSING REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
-------------------------------------
warning: There are 4 missing REQUIRED dependencies.
note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection.
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: gcc (gcc - GNU Project C and C++
Compiler)
error: This installer cannot install this dependency for your distro/OS and/or
version.
error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency. Please manually
install this dependency and re-run this installer.

[anne@borg2 Downloads]$ rpm -qa gcc
gcc-4.1.2-14.el5

gcc is the only dependency listed, and it is definitely installed.

Anne

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said :
#1

The auto installer does not currently support CentOS, you'll want to do the manual install process to install hplip.

This may change in the future, I've actually been looking at CentOS the past few days and may incorporate the auto installer if it doesn't present any major challenges.

And you may be missing c++ or g++ which the check checks for both.

Hope this helps!

Aaron

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Anne Wilson (cannewilson) said :
#2

There were considerably more dependencies to find on the CentOS one than onthe Mandriva one, but in both cases the manual install was much better than the auto-install - more information available. Thanks for the help. It now only remains to get the Eeepc talking to the device :-)

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Anne Wilson (cannewilson) said :
#3

Thanks Aaron Albright, that solved my question.