I'm new to Linux as of a few days ago when I installed BionicPup32 (USB formatted with Rufus no partition) on a Dell Dimension 8400. I've spent the last few days having a good time troubleshooting and trying different things. System has Pentium 4 3ghz and 1gig of ram. I've gotten everything working and connecting to Ethernet using Palemoon. So it's going pretty good I even ordered 4g of ram for the system to pep it up just for fun.
I just can't get Cups to list my HP Envy 4500 printer driver. I installed hplip-data_3.17.10+repack0-5 from PPM but I do not 'know where it is stored at. I do have a "save" file on my usb but I can not find it there.
Does Cups just automatically see hplip or do I need to open or run it?
I also downloaded the hplip-3.22.6 tar.gz and hplip-3.22.10.run to a USB from hp web site but the instructions are for Ubuntu. Will those instructions still work on bionic?
When I try to execute hplip-3.22.10.run the terminal says I dont have gcc installed. I read on other posts that drev was the tool that compiles and I get gcc that way. Ok I don't know
Sorry it's probably something really simple but I'm a super noob.
Thanks to everyone still supporting this distro I love taking these older systems and tinkering and super glad I found bionic .