Newer hplip packages please

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So who do I need to bribe for some newer hplip packages? Using the .run file to do updates from the sourceforge page on every system is getting old :) Although I would personally be fine with just el7 packages, it would be great to have el6 ones too for the handful of systems I deal with that are 32-bit only clients.

Thanks!
Andrew.

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R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
11 February 2016 1:42 PM

Hi Andrew,

I see you cited in the products you added to your discussion both RHEL 6 & 7.

Please know that Red Hat backports features/security fixes from upstream open source projects into their own versions of any given rpm. But I greatly suspect this doesn't even apply for you because the rpms are not available for RHEL 7.

I was did a quick rpm search at this link which only produced RHEL 5 & 6 rpms for hplip, and I suspect but can not confirm you really wanted rhel7 hplip rpms. Again, I see you cited both RHEL 6 & 7 as products in the original post you made.

That being said, when I did a google search of "rhel7 hplip rpm" I found this HP website (you probably found it before me) that seems to offer some solution for RHEL 7 and HP seems to offer a RHEL 7 run file (as probably you found, and not an rpm) of their software at this link.

I'd recommend since Red Hat Inc. has made some precedent of having the hplip rpms in the past for both RHEL 5 & 6 (and now not yet for RHEL 7), to put in a case for RHEL 7 for this rpm citing the precedent of previous rpms in previous versions of RHEL (and maybe you can work something out with them, note, I do not work for Red Hat).

Good luck

Andrew Schott's picture Active Contributor 241 points
11 February 2016 11:22 PM

Indeed the rpms are available. But a rather old one that doesn't support a single laser mfp that I have purchased for any of my clients or myself.

Now that said, the current working strategy is to use the .run file from the hp site (which points to sourceforge) and just deal with the fact that the updates are not friendly to the average user. I was hoping to get a more modern iteration that can at least be installed via rpm, from Red Hat. In the end, if need be I can roll up my own RPM, but this is less than ideal, as this would annoy several clients that have a strict policy of only RH approved channels, not even epel is permitted.

Here is the yum info from my rhel7 system. Strangely RH has a newer version than CentOS does.

Name        : hplip
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.13.7
Release     : 6.el7
Size        : 6.0 M
Repo        : rhel-7-desktop-rpms/7Client/x86_64
Summary     : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
URL         : http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
License     : GPLv2+ and MIT
Description : The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides
            : drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.
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