Re: Installation of printer driver for HP smarttank 570 (hplip-3.20.5.run/hplip-3.20.6.run)

[Ben Elliston]

Hi Jan

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:10:52PM +0000, jaqu2030_pm wrote:

> The question is may be only where to include the downloaded files
> timestamped 2020-07-12 & 2020-07-10 (config.guess & config.sub) ??
> The config.guess and config.sub files from 2011-05-xx are obviously
> copied into current dir (./) from somewhere when executing
> hplip-3.20.5.run/hplip-3.20.6.run... As you see, I have included the
> downloaded files in the ./ directory and they where overwritten by
> the config files timestamped with 2011-05-xx (config.guess &
> config.sub).

I took a look at hplip-3.20.6.run. It's one of these self-extractors
made using Makeself: a shell script followed by a tarfile (in binary
form).

It looks like the shell script just runs hplip-install after
extracting the tarfile. As a starting point, I would run
hplip-3.20.6.run, let it unpack the tarfile, overwrite the
config.guess and .sub it created in the target directory it creates,
and then run hplip-install by hand.

You might also like to report this problem to the hplip maintianers so
that they may update the versions of config.guess/sub they ship.

Cheers,
Ben

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