Brothers and sisters:

My iBook is in the shop, so I'm playing with my Linux box (RH 7.2) for the first time in months. I've been working on something I have never been able to accomplish in over three years ... getting the printer to work. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer which always worked fine from Windows and Mac, but I have never succeeded in printing so much as a single page from Linux.

When I run the program printconf-gui, it inevitably fails with this message.

Can't locate Foomatic/Defaults.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ... ) at /usr/bin/foomatic-configure line 13. ...

Examination of the script /usr/bin/foomatic-configure shows that it is a Perl script which requires two modules, Foomatic::Defaults and Foomatic::DB. These modules are not found via search.cpan.org or kobesearch.cpan.org. Googling shows that quite a few people have been stymied by lack of these two modules in their @INC ... but their questions never seem to get answered!

Over the last two days, I've tried to remedy lots of other potential obstacles to getting my printer installed, such as installing the latest versions of GIMP and CUPS. But whenever I go back to running printconf-gui, I come up with exactly the same error.

So can anyone tell me where I can get these two Foomatic modules? Thanks in advance.

Jim Keenan

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In reply to Where can I find Foomatic::Defaults and Foomatic::DB? by jkeenan1

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