Comments on: Downloading printer drivers on demand http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Downloading printer drivers on demand » Lilu Drivers Blog http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Downloading printer drivers on demand » Lilu Drivers Blog Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:12:48 +0000 http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/#comment-896 [...] Jonathon Ramsey: [...] [...] Jonathon Ramsey: [...]

]]> By: tim http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/comment-page-1/#comment-807 tim Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:11:45 +0000 http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/#comment-807 This might be a bit of a special case. Although system-config-printer runs on several platforms including Ubuntu, the downloadable drivers at openprinting.org are all in RPM format. This means that on apt-based machines the packages need to be installed using alien. Can PackageKit deal with that sort of situation? This might be a bit of a special case. Although system-config-printer runs on several platforms including Ubuntu, the downloadable drivers at openprinting.org are all in RPM format. This means that on apt-based machines the packages need to be installed using alien.

Can PackageKit deal with that sort of situation?

]]> By: Robin http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/comment-page-1/#comment-806 Robin Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:10:53 +0000 http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/01/25/downloading-printer-drivers-on-demand/#comment-806 You might want to check out some of the things we are doing with PackageKit. One of the goals of the project is to support applications downloading and installing plugins with a cross-distro API. We aren't quite there yet, and if you have any feedback for what you'd need in terms of API, let us know! www.packagekit.org You might want to check out some of the things we are doing with PackageKit. One of the goals of the project is to support applications downloading and installing plugins with a cross-distro API. We aren’t quite there yet, and if you have any feedback for what you’d need in terms of API, let us know!

http://www.packagekit.org

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