Arch Linux

Note to owners of PCL-only Ricoh printers:

Your printer won't work with this driver. Install openprinting-ppds-pxlmono-ricoh, or openprinting-ppds-pxlcolor-ricoh instead.

BTW, package sources can be found on Github:

https://github.com/plp13/plp-aur/tree/master/aur-openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh

Adopted and updated to lastest version.

It installs fine, but I haven't tested it yet, as my printer still needs to be plugged in. Please let me know how it goes.

@hardyh as I have mentioned before, I am no longer in a position to maintain (i.e. build) this package. The code for this package on Github (https://github.com/nhelke/openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh) is nonetheless up to date if you wish to build this package.

The AUR helper I used when I was still using Arch enabled users to edit the pkgbuild file before installation. Please refer to your preferred AUR helper's documentation to see if you can't do the same.

I will also take this opportunity to reach out to anyone who feels up to taking on the periodical (usually no more than twice a year) task of updating the package source, building the package and uploading it to AUR.

This package is useless with the non user fixable typo in the pkgbuild that has not been fixed in 9 months .

I'd gladly do it, but I don't know how to update yet. I'll have a look over the weekend and tell you as soon as I can.

Thanks.

I'm afraid I not longer have an Arch machine. I have merged your pull request with a minor tweak, thank you @chmeee, but I don't have the means to create the AUR package. If you would like to clone the repo (https://github.com/nhelke/openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh) and build the package for AUR submission, I will gladly disown this package and let you take over maintenance.

Hi:

There's a new rpm from last week https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/components/lsb3.2/main/RPMS/noarch/openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh-20140829-1lsb3.2.noarch.rpm

The one in the PKGBUILD is no longer present.

BTW, there's still the comma bug already reported.

Thanks.

The typo in PKGBUILD still exist as for 20140314-2 version, to self modify, remove the , in the line

depends=('cups' 'cups-filters', 'ghostscript')
to
depends=('cups' 'cups-filters' 'ghostscript')

there's a typo in the PKGBUILD "depends=('cups' 'cups-filters', 'ghostscript')"

@tempoz thanks for the heads up. I will update the package shortly. If you use Github feel free to make a pull request for this to https://github.com/nhelke/openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh

I think this package requires ghostscript, as without it I get "D [20/Jun/2014:15:38:36 -0400] [Job 1] Unable to execute gs program: No such file or directory" in the cups error log and "Filter failed" errors when trying to print.

Otherwise, works awesome! Thanks for providing it.

I will update to 20140314 in a couple of days, when I get back to my linux machine. Thanks to John Fetsko for the heads up.

Sorry I missed the update. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

FYI, should anyone ever need it, the package source for this can be found at https://github.com/nhelke/openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh

Thanks for doing the package for this. Recently started using Ricoh at work and this is a god send! Helps me justify linux use in the workplace.

Updated. Thanks for the heads up.

I get an error: Failure while downloading openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh-20130325-1lsb3.2.noarch.rpm

There has been a new update: https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/components/lsb3.2/main/RPMS/noarch/openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh-20130611-1lsb3.2.noarch.rpm

Could you update this?

Thanks @1ace. Fixed in -2

`if [ "$?" == "init" ]` doesn't make any sense... did you mean `if [ $? -eq 0 ]` ?