> 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
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