HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[agemini68]

I wanted to add that if you have more difficulty than I did making a boot disc, you can always have one sent to you if you can wait for snail mail. It's on the site somewhere.

http://www.ubunto.com

[justfred]

Hi,

Just upgraded my dauthers laptop from kramic to lucid (i386) but now I have difficulties to find libstdc++5 : the link that I followed for installing a Dell A920 = Lexmark X1150 on kramic :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...inters#Lexmark

which contains a reference to the Z600 drivers and which depend on libstdc++5 :

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libstdc++5

comes back with an error : two or more packages specified (libstdc++5 jaunty) ??? In fact when moving up the tree one does not find Jaunty any longer : all links for jaunty came back with an error.

I could find it from hardy : libstdc++5_3.3.6-15ubuntu6_i386.deb
but that one throws up an error when trying to install it :

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: gcc-3.3-base (>= 1:3.3.6-15ubuntu6)

Is it a case that a more recent version of libstdc++5 (say linstdc++6) needs to be soft linked to ? Does any one know if this will work with the lexmark.z600-0.4.deb ?

Also the lexmark website (as indicated in one of the earlier posts) does not give a linux version for this model (only Win and MacOS).

Any help much appreciated ...

[KIAaze]

Since you upgraded to lucid, why not use this package?:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid-backports/libstdc++5

[justfred]

Since you upgraded to lucid, why not use this package?:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid-backports/libstdc++5

I didn't think of that ... in the mean time I found a thread where the libstdc++5 was extracted from an amd64 package and this seems to work (but alas I did not find the thread back otherwise I would have posted it here).

I think it should be useful to update the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...inters#Lexmark page to include your suggestion : it would be, I'm sure, greatly appreciated by people trying to install such kind of printers.

How can we achieve that ?

[KIAaze]

Very easily: Just create a launchpad account and you should be able to log in to edit the wiki.

I can do it, but I need to finish something else now and I would also like to see people edit the wiki themselves instead of always waiting for others to do it.

[inearlygaveup]

[QUOTE=justfred;10268743]I didn't think of that ... in the mean time I found a thread where the libstdc++5 was extracted from an amd64 package and this seems to work (but alas I did not find the thread back otherwise I would have posted it here).


I think it may have been post 7 by fagulhaspt at

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=Lexmark+x1270

[justfred]

Yes, that's the thread.

[justfred]

Very easily: Just create a launchpad account and you should be able to log in to edit the wiki.

I can do it, but I need to finish something else now and I would also like to see people edit the wiki themselves instead of always waiting for others to do it.

Ok, done that : added a section for Lucid Lynx with your suggestion and added a similar link for the Karmic Koala section (http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic-backports/libstdc++5) as an alternative source.

[VietCanada]

Installing Lexmark x1270 on a desktop with Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 installed.

I followed the steps outlined here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=Lexmark+x1270

At the part where I double clicked on the libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb icon to install it, I was informed that it was the wrong version since I have amd64.

So after some searching around this Link worked.

What I did:

1) I installed libstdc++5 from synaptic.

2) I dl'd and installed getlibs-all.deb by double clicking on it's icon.

3) I dl'd and installed lexmark.z600-0.4.deb by double clicking on it's icon.

4) I went to System/Administration/Printing.

Added my printer from the list and chose
the z600 colour inkjet driver.

5) I printed a test page. Now I need to buy ink.

[inearlygaveup]

5) I printed a test page. Now I need to buy ink.[/QUOTE]

Same here