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hi,

first i'm fairly new to linux, so be nice to me!

I've been trying linux now and again for some time, and recently was going to make the switch completely. The only problem i faced was that i couldn't get my printer working... its a lexmark z601 (if anyone can help me ;)), i checked out a few sites and found that my only option was to write my own driver..! Not the thing a newcomer is going to do! I found it quite astounding that an OS as established as linux has such a major show stopping disability, surely it cannot be all that difficult to get printer drivers sorted?? (I may be showing my naivety here..)

Any suggestions on what i can do? (apart from buy a new printer!)

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the 605 driver works for the 601 :) it's fairly new too... how can i install this (i'm used to relying on rpms) on suse 9.2 or mandrake 10 (i'm trying them both...!)

you guys reply damn quick..!

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be warned that lexmark doesn't have great support for linux and they will only work easily with a rpm based distro like redhat, fedora, mandrake, and suse. It is possible to get it to work on other distros but much more difficult if you are using the drivers off the lexmark site.

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nope, .rpm only...which is why I'm having such a tough time with it and slackware...I don't need to print often, but it's still annoying

Isn't there a way that Slack has to convert an rpm into a tgz?

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won't work with lexmark as they are inside a bash-gzip monster thingy. Also I opened up the monster and extracted everything then in slackware and never had any success. I also prefer alien for conversion between package formats.

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