Tracking down "cannot find libjpeg support" error

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Captain Nemo - 20 Jul 2008 00:36 GMT

Hello All -

Newbie here.

The master mission is to follow the FreeBSD procedure at
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/index.html

(There isn't a Mac OS one)

and get to the refined HPLIP interfaces to HP printers.

In running this terminal command:
./configure --enable-network-build --disable-pp-build --enable-fax-build
--enable-dbus-build --enable-gui-build --enable-scan-build
--enable-doc-build --enable-foomatic-ppd-install
--disable-foomatic-drv-install --with-hpppddir=/usr/share/ppd/HP
--disable-hpijs-only-build --prefix=/usr

I get this error: "cannot find libjpeg support"

Tracking that down I'm lead to (first Google hit):
"need to download the libjpeg62-dev package in Synaptic"

That lead me to these files:

libjpeg62-dev_6b-13_powerpc.deb
synaptic_0.57.11.1_powerpc.deb and/or
aptitude_0.4.4-4_powerpc.deb

and I don't have a clue now about what to do now. I appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance.

...best, Capt N.

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Tom Harrington - 20 Jul 2008 22:03 GMT

> Hello All -
>
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> and I don't have a clue now about what to do now. I appreciate any help.

The ".deb" indicates that those are Debian package manager files,
probably not useful outside of Debian Linux. In fact synaptic and
aptitude are both tools for working with Debian packages, so I can't
imagine you actually need either.

You can get libjpeg for Mac OS X. Google's your friend here but I'd be
inclined to go with MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> for installing
this kind of thing. They don't appear to have hplip, but they've got
libjpeg and probably will have any other dependencies you run into.

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Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
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Captain Nemo - 23 Jul 2008 00:46 GMT

> The ".deb" indicates that those are Debian package manager files,
> probably not useful outside of Debian Linux. In fact synaptic and
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> this kind of thing. They don't appear to have hplip, but they've got
> libjpeg and probably will have any other dependencies you run into.

Tom -

Thanks. Maybe chasing wild geese, but also maybe this weekend I'll have
a complied file. Been there, got it.

...best, Capt N.

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Tracking down "cannot find libjpeg support" error