On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 05:23 -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Just purchased an HP PSC 2355 printer, scanner, copyer.
> 
> HP{ provides a driver for Linux. It requires updating
> 
> existing software with later versions. I have found the
> 
> required later versions as rpm's. What happens to the
> 
> old software when I install the newer versions. Is it
> 
> left in the system and I have to remove it, or is it
> 
> automatically replaced?
> 
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I see reports of getting these things (HP OfficeJets) running on Fedora
3 without anything special being downloaded and installed so I would go
slowly on this.

I would think that if you are running a distro with 2.6 kernel, it's
likely to have a new enough cups and sane to work without need to
install the software from HP as they have been working with the
developers.

As for newer/older rpms...If say, their software wants to replace cups
with a newer version, you would have to either remove all cups rpms
(ugly thought) and rpm -i (install) or better, rpm -U (update) cups
which 'should' merely update the packages cleanly.

Craig

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