Archive for November, 2009

First, needed to install git. Can get it with yum if have rpmforge installed.

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

The above command installs rpmforge-release. Now can install git with yum.

[root@server yum.repos.d]# yum install git
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
rpmforge                                                                                                              | 1.1 kB     00:00     
rpmforge/primary                                                                                                      | 3.5 MB     00:01     
rpmforge                                                                                                                           9732/9732
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package git.i386 0:1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(SVN::Ra) for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(SVN::Core) for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Git) for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(SVN::Delta) for package: git
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-Git.i386 0:1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Error) for package: perl-Git
---> Package subversion-perl.i386 0:1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: subversion = 1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf for package: subversion-perl
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-Error.noarch 0:0.17015-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package subversion.i386 0:1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================================
 Package                              Arch                        Version                                Repository                     Size
=============================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 git                                  i386                        1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf                       rpmforge                       27 M
Installing for dependencies:
 perl-Error                           noarch                      0.17015-1.el5.rf                       rpmforge                       27 k
 perl-Git                             i386                        1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf                       rpmforge                       18 k
 subversion-perl                      i386                        1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf                       rpmforge                      2.3 M
Updating for dependencies:
 subversion                           i386                        1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf                       rpmforge                      6.5 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================
Install      4 Package(s)         
Update       1 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 36 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/5): perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm                                                                             |  18 kB     00:00     
(2/5): perl-Error-0.17015-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm                                                                         |  27 kB     00:00     
(3/5): subversion-perl-1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm                                                                      | 2.3 MB     00:01     
(4/5): subversion-1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm                                                                           | 6.5 MB     00:02     
(5/5): git-1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm                                                                                  |  27 MB     00:14     
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                                        1.8 MB/s |  36 MB     00:19     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating       : subversion                                                                                                            1/6 
  Installing     : perl-Error                                                                                                            2/6 
  Installing     : subversion-perl                                                                                                       3/6 
  Installing     : git                                                                                                                   4/6 
  Installing     : perl-Git                                                                                                              5/6 
  Cleanup        : subversion                                                                                                            6/6 

Installed:
  git.i386 0:1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf                                                                                                                

Dependency Installed:
  perl-Error.noarch 0:0.17015-1.el5.rf           perl-Git.i386 0:1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf           subversion-perl.i386 0:1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf          

Dependency Updated:
  subversion.i386 0:1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf                                                                                                         

Complete!

The status of a printer can be checked with:

[computer1 ~]# lpq -P 3rdfl
3rdfl is ready
no entries

If the result comes back with:

3rdfl is not ready

The printer needs to be started. This can be done by opening a web browser on the computer and going to localhost:631. However, it’s easier to just enable it from the command line with:

/usr/bin/enable

Be sure to include the /usr/bin part or it will think it’s a shell built-in command and it won’t work.