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

[Matt Graham]

From: joe at actionline.com
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> Joseph Sinclair last wrote (in part):
>> 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.
> 
> $ 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)

Hm.  You probably have to run this as root; did you?  (root's prompt usually
includes a # by tradition, not a $ .)  Are you running an RPM-based distro? 
If not, /var/lib/rpm/ will not exist, and you'll have to do "rpm --initdb" as
root to make all that stuff.

> $ rpm --install cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         cnijfilter-common >= 3.70 is needed 
>         libcnnet.so is needed 

libcnnnet.so is provided by the cnijfilter-common package if Teh Almighty
Google is correct.

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