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NoneNone> I tried installing hpijs-ppds, but I still don't see the CM3530 
> listed; I do now see a Color Laserjet 3550 (without the CM, and not 
> the 3530), but who knows if that'd work? Not me.
>
> The hplip-gui package is already installed, but running "hplip-gui" 
> did nothing. "man hplip-gui" did nothing (I thought all Debian 
> packages are supposed to have a man page, even if it does nothing more 
> than point to some other documentation?). (Looking in 
> /usr/share/doc/hplip-gui would have eventually maybe clued me to the 
> hp-toolbox, but thankfully you've already pointed me to it so I didn't 
> have to dig blindly.)
>
> The hp-toolbox said no device is set up, and to run hp-setup (as 
> root). It failed to automagically find my printer, but I chose to use 
> the Manual button and enter the printer's IP address, and now it 
> presents me with a list of six possible PPD drivers, none of which 
> have names very close at all to my printer (cm4730, cm6030, cm4730, 
> and Postscript variants of those).
>
> Arg.
>
> Thanks for the help though. At least I'm seeing stuff I've never seen 
> before. (And they say Windows is hard to configure. Pfft. (Sorry for 
> the ranting; I'm just frustrated. I really do love Debian, and really 
> do hate Windows.))
>

So I manually downloaded HPLIP from HP's web site 
(http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html), but when I try to 
run it, it complains about gcc not being installed. So I aptitude 
installed gcc, and then tried again, and it still complains about gcc 
not being installed.

Arg!

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