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# PPA Printer-Support RPM Packages for MANDRAKE Linux distributions.

## The pnm2ppa project team ppa-rpms@users.sourceforge.net

v0.1 Nov 11, 2000

Information about using pnm2ppa with Mandrake. (Updated for pnm2ppa-1.04 and later.)

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,

- Mandrake 7.0 and earlier has incompatible and non-functional `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.)
- Mandrake-7.1 supplies a `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.
- Mandrake-7.2 does not have a separate `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`.

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