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cups package

Lexmark Z615

Asked by Nicolas Panozzo

I downloaded the driver z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh and tried to launch it but I get the following message

'gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again'

I tried also to use the terminal as suggested by many users but I didn't have any joy. Also I don't understand why I should use the terminal when it should be just a matter of double clicking on the installation file as I did for all other applications I installed in Ubuntu.

Could anybody enlighten me?

Thanks,

Nicolas

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

Look at "HOWTO: Install Lexmark X1100 series" on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5496

Go to the last post - the one by newonlinux.

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Nicolas Panozzo (nicolapanozzo) said : 		#2

Thanks arochester.

Unfortunately I got stuck after installing alien. When I type 'alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm' I get the following message on the terminal:

Warning: alien is not running as root!
Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong.
File "z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm" not found.

Do you have any clue?

Thanks,
Nicola

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#3

Look at "Installing using an RPM file " on http://embraceubuntu.com/2005/09/23/installing-using-an-rpm-file/

Scroll down to "Installing the .rpm file" You have to navigate to the .rpm. That's probably why it says "File "z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm" not found."

"You can convert the .rpm to a .deb by using the following commands.

$cd ~/Desktop

-This will change the directory to your desktop, where you have the .rpm file" (or elsewhere if you have downloaded it somethere else...)

AND USE SUDO! THIS WILL GIVE YOU RIGHTS - $sudo alien -t name-of-rpm-file.rpm

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Nicolas Panozzo (nicolapanozzo) said : 		#4

Thanks again.

I used SUDO but still the terminal says 'file .rpm not found'.

The .rpm file is in the folder 'lexmark' I had created so I changed the directory to lexmark first and then I tried both sudo alien -t name-of-rpm-file.rpm and sudo alien -k name-of-rpm-file.rpm but in both cases the message is 'file .rpm not found'. I'm lost.

Nicolas

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Nicolas Panozzo (nicolapanozzo) said : 		#5

arochester, you're a star

I redid the whole process from scratch and bingo! the printer is installed!!!

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Nicolas Panozzo (nicolapanozzo) said : 		#6

Suddenly my printer is not working anymore. It is still correctly installed but when I print the job stays in the 'processing' status forever. Do you have any clue?

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Nicolas Panozzo (nicolapanozzo) said : 		#7

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