[ale] Problem with hplip installation

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

On 4/27/05, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> I am attempting to reinstall my HP PSC2610v. I downloaded the source
> code from http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ and after several installs
> for gcc, cpp, and g++ (all related to version 2.95) was able to run
> ./configure --prefix=/usr as far as I know completely. At least it
> didn't report any errors. Now when I do make I get the following:
> 
> Making all in prnt/hpijs
<scissors of brevity>
> ./../../depcomp: line 504: exec: g++: not found
> make[1]: *** [hpijs.o] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/scott/Downloads/hplip-0.9.2/prnt/hpijs'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> what is happening?

You don't have the g++ compiler installed.  You should install the g++
package.  On my system that is the gcc-c++ package.

Michael