How to install an rpm.tar.gz printer driver?

[JD Austin]

You have to be root to install packages with rpm; if you have sudo set up
add sudo
otherwise 'su -' and then when you're in the same folder
rpm --install cnijfilter-common-3.70-1.i386.rpm
cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386.rpm



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:17 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

>
> The comedy/tragedy continues. (see below)
>
> Joseph Sinclair last wrote (in part):
> > Looks like packages has the rpm's for the actual driver; pick the two
> i386
> > versions ... and try installing them.
> > make sure to rpm --install *both* rpm's for your architecture; it looks
> > like they're a split of shared libraries and actual driver code.
>
> So I tried installing both applicable rpms with the resulting errors shown:
>
> $ rpm --install cnijfilter-common-3.70-1.i386.rpm
> error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 (No such
> file or directory)
>
> $ rpm --install cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         cnijfilter-common >= 3.70 is needed by
> cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386
>         libcnnet.so is needed by cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386
>         libcnnet.so(VERS_1.0) is needed by
> cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386
>
>
>
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