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Home > How-Tos > Compiling/Build

# Compiling/Build (configure and make) How-Tos

How to build and install the tarball (brief instructions).

View this resource: Tarball Installation Reference

How to install an HPLIP software patch.

Patches may only be applied to the tarball version of the HPLIP software (not an RPM, DEB, TGZ, or other pre-build package).

How to apply a patch:

    $ cd hplip-<version>
    $ patch -p1 < hplip-<version>.patch
    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
    $ make clean
    $ make
    $ su   (or use 'sudo make install')
    # make install   (as root)

Last update: Fri Jun 9 15:37:44 2006