Many thanks Paul, yes please I would love a copy - thank you. Could I also ask for a copy of the spec file you used please?
Sorry I've been a bit silent on this, but your first e-mail gave me a lot of work to do as I've never built an rpm before (scary). But I finally did it with your advice and my printer prints great now. However, now there is a little problem with YAST.
First off there is no sources selection box against the libgimpprint package in YAST, and it took me a good while to find out that the sources for libgimpprint are actually contained in the sources for the ghostscript library!! (explain that to a newbie!)
I didn't have any dependency issues but did have the glib-config error like yourself (put a link to it in /usr/bin).
I don't think I incremented the version number properly in the spec file (I assume that's where I was supposed to do it!). I did end up with an rpm named libgimpprint-4.2.6-42 and installed it but in YAST libgimpprint now has a padlock symbol, is highlighted in red and under the "versions" tab lists 4.2.6-41 (in black) and 4.2.6-42 (in green with tick box) - surely it should just be listing 4.2.6-42 in green without the padlock and red highlighting?
After all my efforts in trying not to break my system, I think that's exactly what I've ended up doing - doh! We live and learn.
I think to fix this I will need to build a 4.2.6-43!
Best regards,
Martin
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:57, Paul wrote:
Sufice to say, the build process fails !
However, after a little bit of hackery, I finally got the rpmbuild to run successfully, so if you need libgimpprint, drop me a note - BTW it is ~1.5M
Regards, Paul.