printing options - SOLVED

[Geert Janssens]

Longman, Bill wrote:
>>Personally, I think this little detail will fix the printing 
>>issues for 
>>many list members that tried to download and install another 
>>version of 
>>gimp-print, but it didn't work.
>>
>>Good luck to them !
> 
> 
> I think it's also an example of how you can get tripped up by mixing
> compiled code with your RPM-based system.
> 
Well, I partly dealt with this mixing problem by using checkinstall in 
stead of simply make install

This way, rpm has a track record of everything that got installed by 
this personal compilation.

I also removed the installed gimp-print rpm beforehand, to avoid double 
libraries. (I had to use rpm -e though, which always feels 
uncomfortable, even though I was about to re-install the same 
functionality).


As an after thought, I could also have configured the build process to 
use /usr/lib as the install prefix, instead of /usr/local/lib (ie 
./configure --prefix=/usr ..., I would presume, but NOT TESTED).
That combined with checkinstall should normally create a binary rpm that 
replaces the original rpm where it was.

But my setup works now, I'm not about to change it until I have to due 
to other failing dependencies.

Cheers,

Geert