Installing the SuSE iPrint client under Debian

The printserver page has a link to the client to install. Use it to download the Novell rpm package.

	Note
	The link is a scripted thing that determines your platform, so in order to download the client for platform X, you first have to install an OS and a browser on platform X. But see the next chapter for a solution.

The “Cool Solution” suggested by Novell is to use the command alien -d --scripts iprint...rpm to convert the package to a .debpackage. This disregards the fact that the resulting package is somewhat in conflict with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, in that it puts its files in /opt, which is for application software, whereas iPrint would belong in /usr.

However, we can still do it on a system that doesn't care. We also need to install the libglitz package:

sudo apt-get install libglitz1

Now we install the beastie:

dpkg -i novell-iprint-xclient-sl_6.500.20070508-2_amd64.deb

Following a succesful installation, according to the above webpage, we need to issue a few commands (mainly to set environment variables):

And then of course we've got FireFox working, but not IceWeasel, so we need a few more commands:

Now we can restart the browser, go to the printer lists, and add printers to our hearts' content.

	Note
	We must of course have rights to add printers to our local machine.