[lug] Problems with Fedora Core 3

[Michael Belanger]

ben bullard wrote:

> Actually working with my bro Tom  we figured out that it was a problem 
> of putting the file where it needed to be. That worked.Now we're on to 
> getting my Lexmark Z55 printer to work. The driver from lexmark is 
> downloaded and we're trying to figure out how to get the file to where 
> it needs to be to config.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Bullard Newbie!
>
>
>
> David Anselmi wrote:
>
>> ben bullard wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Then I go through the commands till I get to "tar xvfj *.tar.bz2" 
>>> and it
>>> informs me there is "no such file or directory".
>>
>>
>>
>> This isn't a FC3 problem.  Probably it's a tar or command line 
>> problem.  I assume you got something like this (the $ is your prompt):
>>
>> $ tar xvfj *.tar.bz2
>> tar: *.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> tar: Child returned status 2
>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>> $
>>
>> That means you ran the tar command in a different directory than the 
>> one the tar file is in.  If you can find the directory (folder, 
>> whatever) where you saved the download you can use "cd 
>> /path/to/save/directory" and then run tar.
>>
>> If you don't understand that Unix paths are separated by forward 
>> slashes (Windows uses backslashes), what absolute and relative paths 
>> are, etc. ask away.  But you might google for tutorials on the 
>> command line or shell first.  (Here's one that might do:
>>
>> http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
>>
>> but there are lots of others.)
>>
>> Dave
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As root, run system-config-printer