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[Digital BW] Re: Help Installing QTR in Redhat 9..Think I'll Call It a Day

2004-04-29 by Tom Husband

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Roger L Sopher
<rlsopher@c...> wrote:
> Hey Tom,
> 
> Let me preach a bit.
> 
> You can do a reinstall in less than an hour. It will be worth the time
> and trouble. This time choose custom and make sure you load the
> development module. Once you get that done QTR will go in like butter. 
> 
> When I was putting together my pretty lame how to I reinstalled the damn
> thing more times than I care to remember in order to try to find the
> problem spots. I obviously forgot to mention the need to load the
> development module.The end result though is a print engine that sings.
> 
> On the other hand I tried Fedora and could never get the 2200 to work.
> My 860 worked fine and the 2200 didn't. I moved back to RH 9 and it just
> fell together.
> 
> Put it aside for a day and let the frustration subside then make it
> work.It still is a lot easier than fighting windows....
> 
> Consider that using wine you can load photoshop into linux and print
> using QTR - almost as easy as with a mac. There are a few windows aps I
> still need to use but for the majority of what I do my linux box is the
> system.
> 
> No question, if I were starting from scratch I would go with a mac but
> for more compute power and a very similar operating system and a lot
> less money linux is a reasonable substitute.
> 
> Roger

Right Roger.  Like a said to Ramin, I had to try again.  Thanks for
the sermon.  Photoshop in linux?  Full blown with all the functions? 
Now that would be cool.  The workflow going from windows to linux is a
pain.

Tom

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