Mandrake-specific issues.
See the document INSTALL.REDHAT.html for installation and setup. That document is written for Red Hat; note the Mandrake-specific differences listed below,
To update pnm2ppa
in any recent Mandrake release (7.2 or later) from v1.04 to v1.10,
the simplest procedure may be
just to compile pnm2ppa from tarball source and replace the Mandake binaries
/usr/bin/pnm2ppa and /usr/bin/calibrate_ppa with
the new versions. They should function as drop-in replacements,
with the same user interface, but improved image quality.
(You may also wish to use the newer pnm2ppa.conf configuration
file template).
pnm2ppa support which must be replaced.
Please use
printtool to delete any installed PPA printers BEFORE
upgrading rhs-printfilters. (If you forget to do this, and
printtool will not start after the update, delete or move your
/etc/printcap file.)
Install the pnm2ppa RPM package.
Then update rhs-printfilters with
rhs-printfilters-1.58-4ppa5mdk.i386.rpm
from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa.
(Do NOT use rhs-printfilters-1.57-4ppa4.i386.rpm
which is for RedHat systems only.)pnm2ppa RPM and has support for
it in rhs-printfilters. Mandrake 7.1 has a configuration
tool DrakConf for setting up printers, which may
be an interface to printtool.
Some users have reported difficulties with this. In that case, just use
printtool to configure the printer.pnm2ppa RPM package, but has
added pnm2ppa to the ghostscript RPM package. This creates
difficulties for updating pnm2ppa with the RPM package from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa.
You will get reported conflicts with ghostscript
if you try to install the
pnm2ppa-1.04-1.i386.rpm package,
but it seems that you can
safely use the rpm option --force to force its installation.
Mandrake-7.2 also has moved to using CUPS as its printing system,
and appears to now have its own printer configuration tool, but still
includes pnm2ppa support in rhs-printfilters.