Need help installing Lexmark Z605 printer on OpenSuse 12.1

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#1

I have done lot of digging on this and other forums and found a set of instructions to get the driver installed for Lexmark z605 on 12.1. I have done a dry run on most of the steps but the first step is stumping me. It asks to install rpm2targz to convert two rpm drivers. The instructions are as follows:

Download rpm2targz
bunzip2 rpm2targz.tar.bz2
su
cd rpm2targz
./install

after executing bunzip2, it can not find rpm2targz directory no matter what I try. I am sure I will have some issues once the driver is installed but right now I am stuck at step 1. Is there an easy way to get rpm2targz installed in OpenSuse 12.1? thx

#2

When you report commands and output, please enclose within

...[/CO..] tags, including any error messages so we can interpret for ourselves. This information may help others advise, rather than guess. Anyway, when you execute

bunzip2 rpm2targz.tar.bz2


and you get

bunzip2: Can’t open input file rpm2targz.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.


it is because the path to the file/directory is not known. Change directory to where the file was downloaded, then execute it again, or supply the path

bunzip2 /path/to/rpm2targz.tar.bz2

#3

Thanks for a quick reply. Here is output from terminal session. It seems to me there is a step missing somewhere:

nayyar@linux-nkt8:~/Downloads> bunzip2 rpm2targz.tar.bz2
nayyar@linux-nkt8:~/Downloads> su
Password:
linux-nkt8:/home/nayyar/Downloads # cd rpm2targz
bash: cd: rpm2targz: No such file or directory
linux-nkt8:/home/nayyar/Downloads # ./install
bash: ./install: No such file or directory
linux-nkt8:/home/nayyar/Downloads #

Any help would be appreciated.

#4

You should not need to be root to do these tasks. If the file doesn’t exist, did you actually even manage to download ‘rpm2targz.bz2’? Only you know where you downloaded it to… :slight_smile:

BTW, it should not be necessary to convert the RPM package(s). An old openSUSE thread

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/424481-Lexmark-z517-z600-z510-printer-howto?p=2350345#post2350345

mentioned that there was some CUPS (package version) dependency issue, but from an old thread I participated in

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/479931-Dell-A10-922-photo-printer?p=2499178#post2499178

I showed that it was possible to use

sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps <name-of-package>

to get around that.

Once installed, you restart CUPS (as root) with

rccups restart
#5

Thanks … will retry this weekend.

#6

I followed the instructions as laid out here. Unfortunately, when I rccups command, it tells me command not found.

nayyar@linux-nkt8:~> sudo rccups restart
root’s password:
sudo: rccups: command not found
nayyar@linux-nkt8:~>

Then when I go to cups using web interface, it can not find any printer driver files [none whatsoever]. At least before, it gave me a list of drivers to pick from. Now I get nothing.

What would you suggest I do? It would appear that I am in worse shape than I was before. An help would be appreciated. I don’t want to start from scratch. It takes just too much time to reinstall OpenSuse and get all the updates on.

#7

If you use sudo, then you also need to supply the path

sudo /usr/sbin/rccups restart

A reboot would have done the same of course.

#8

Then when I go to cups using web interface, it can not find any printer driver files [none whatsoever]. At least before, it gave me a list of drivers to pick from. Now I get nothing.

What would you suggest I do? It would appear that I am in worse shape than I was before. An help would be appreciated. I don’t want to start from scratch. It takes just too much time to reinstall OpenSuse and get all the updates on.

I’ve just found the time to reinstall the z600 RPMs: z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm and z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm. I installed both using the package manager. The cups package complained about the version of cups installed (as it is a very old package), but choosing to ignore this ‘dependency’ allows it to install with no further issue. Once CUPS was restarted, it was possible to configure with z600 model being available amongst other Lexmark models.

#9

I found the ppd file in one of the cups folders and manually pointed to that file but when I print a test page. Then it complained about lack of libtc++.so.5 etc. the printer is stopped and I get this message:

Lexmark-Z600-Series: Directory “/etc/cups/interfaces” has insecure permissions (040755/uid=4/gid=7).’]

I have a feeling I missed a step somewhere. Is there an easy solution? I have the debugging file from cups but it is too long and complicated.

#10

That shouldn’t have been necessary. The CUPS web interface allows you to choose by make and model. It will take care of the rest.

Then it complained about lack of libtc++.so.5 etc. the printer is stopped and I get this message:

Lexmark-Z600-Series: Directory “/etc/cups/interfaces” has insecure permissions (040755/uid=4/gid=7).’

I have a feeling I missed a step somewhere. Is there an easy solution? I have the debugging file from cups but it is too long and complicated.

I think you may mean ‘libstdc++.so.5’. Install ‘libstdc++6-32bit’ then try again.

zypper in libstdc++6-32bit

This actually provides

/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.18

but I think that should be okay.

I can’t test further, since I don’t have the hardware. Confirm that you have both RPMs installed (like I have)

rpm -qa|grep z600
z600cups-1.0-1.i386
z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386
#11

I have the debugging file from cups but it is too long and complicated.

Hint: When you want to share long debugging info or logs, you are best advised to upload to http://paste.opensuse.org/ (or similar), and post the link to it here.

#12

> zypper in libstdc++6-32bit

If it turns out that it still wants the .5 file after that and is not
satisfied with the .6 version, the old one is available in the package
libstdc++33-32bit.

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#13

I can’t test further, since I don’t have the hardware. Confirm that you have both RPMs installed (like I have)

rpm -qa|grep z600
z600cups-1.0-1.i386
z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386

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I confirmed that both RPMs are installed. My bigger mystery is CUPS default printer selection list has been wiped out. When I try to select a printer driver from cups. It comes up blank. Something messed something up in CUPS. Not sure if reinstalling CUPS would move me step ahead or step back.

#14

Martin, I did install libstd++33 package so it no longer complains about libstd++5. Now my issue is CUPS not functioning as expected.