> I see reports of getting these things (HP OfficeJets) running on Fedora > 3 without anything special being downloaded and installed so I would go > slowly on this. > > I would think that if you are running a distro with 2.6 kernel, it's > likely to have a new enough cups and sane to work without need to > install the software from HP as they have been working with the > developers. > > As for newer/older rpms...If say, their software wants to replace cups > with a newer version, you would have to either remove all cups rpms > (ugly thought) and rpm -i (install) or better, rpm -U (update) cups > which 'should' merely update the packages cleanly. > > Craig Thanks Craig, Since this is the only reply I received to my query I will not attempt to do any updating since is so much hocus-pocus and live with the easy to use Windows XP version! Clay Stapleton --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss