Hooray! I finally got my printer working! Ryan, your help compiling ppmtomd was a big step. If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I needed to take to get the printer working here: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?19,4245,4315#msg-4315 Hopefully anyone else trying do get an alps printer working on and intel mac will find it. Thanks for all your help! -Matt On Jan 16, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008, at 19:08, Matt wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008, at 18:44, Matt wrote:
On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
You can read its manpage to see if it's really the software you want.
After you install ppmtomd, type
man ppmtomd
I have looked at the man pages by opening ppmtomd.man in the original source download. I haven't been able to run man on any software I have downloaded through macports. Do I still have something wrong with my macports install?
If typing "man ppmtomd" does not show you the ppmtomd manpage, and ppmtomd is installed, then yes, something is wrong.
What OS version are you on, and what is the value of your MANPATH environment variable?
I'm on Tiger, and my MANPATH is empty, and it works fine.
I'm on leopard.
My MANPATH is:
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man
I assume I need to add :/opt/local/share/man to it... should it have done this automaticly?
or should I delete everything from MANPATH as you say yours is empty....
Leopard does it differently, again, as usual. :( But one way to make it work is to put /opt/local/share/man into MANPATH, yes.