in reply to Where can I find Foomatic::Defaults and Foomatic::DB?

They must be part of RedHat, not a perl thing, so you are either missing an RPM or running the wrong program. Have you considered that your RH 7.2 box is about as old as Windows 95? Might be time to upgrade to something released in the last 5 years.
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Re^2: Where can I find Foomatic::Defaults and Foomatic::DB?
by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Jan 23, 2005 at 21:30 UTC
    perrin wrote: Have you considered that your RH 7.2 box is about as old as Windows 95? Might be time to upgrade to something released in the last 5 years.

    I checked my original RedHat documentation. The copyright date for RH 7.2 is 2001; it was the latest release when I bought it. If it was actually as old as Windows95, I would expect its deficiencies to be non-repairable. But it isn't, so I still would like to get it to work.

    Jim Keenan

      Okay, but my Epson printer worked out of the box under a recent Red Hat. All I did was run the printer config program from the desktop applications menu. I think the age of that distro is the source of your problems here.
Re^2: [OT] Where can I find Foomatic::Defaults and Foomatic::DB?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 23, 2005 at 22:58 UTC

    Err, that's a little less than accurate.

    • RedHat 1.1: August 1, 1995
    • Windows 95: August 24, 1995
    • RedHat 2.0: September 20, 1995
    • RedHat 7.2: October 22, 2001
    • Windows XP: October 25, 2001

    Makeshifts last the longest.

      I was thinking in terms of what was on my Windows partition when 7.3 came out, but I guess it was probably Windows 98, not 95.