[Tfug] Back to Debian again - Now What?

[Bowie J. Poag]

>
> Its not cause you're not familiar. RPM-based systems are generally hell to
> update. There's software like Red Carpet to ease the pain, but it doesn't
> come close to apt's functionality.

Wrong again. The only people who report difficulty with RPM are people who
(a) have misused RPM on the same system in the past, or (b) have never taken
the time to learn how to use it correctly.

Most people treat their Red Hat installs like a big steaming pony loaf.
Every chance they get, they want to --nodeps this, and --force that. In so
doing, they confuse the fuck out of the RPM database, and end up with
miserably deep chains of unresolved dependencies they have no clue how to go
about correcting.

rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm

Its that simple. If it doesnt work, you need to satisfy the dependencies it
asks for.

rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm  dependencies.rpm othercrap.rpm

NEVER, under any circumstances, install a package with --nodeps or --force,
unless you know what you're doing. If you have to stop and think about it,
you don't.

> > 4.  How do I set up my Lexmark Z22 as my default
> > printer?
>
> You could try configuring it with magicfilter, or once you got X and stuff
> you can download other graphiky utils. I've never really had a need to set
> up a printer (I usually print all my stuff from school), so I don't know
> too much more about that in Debian. Magicfilter has worked the one time I
> needed a printer, though.

Quit giving shitty advice.

Lexmark offers Linux drivers on their site. Download them, run them. It'll
even install a damn print daemon for you if you dont have one already.