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Cups is NOT included in the Mandriva KDE live CD's. The cups packages and printer drivers are among the "needed packages" that are installed along with system-config-printer.
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
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In Linux you do not download system packages for install.
Automatic "package mechanisms" take care of that.
Terminal : The commands are ...
1) su
2) urpmi.update -a
3) urpmi cups cups-common hplip hplip-hpijs hplip-hpijs-ppds
I have an HP All-in-One printer here, and when I connected it's USB cable to my computer, Mandriva detected it and installed all requires software for me. I then went searching the Mandriva Hardware Compatibility list, and was directed to the database at the LinuxPrinting WEB site where I looked up your printer (HP Deskjet D2663), and did not find it listed. One thing you can try (no promises) is to install the hplip package using the Mandriva package manager (the package manager will install the needed dependencies too) and see if that gets the printer working. If that fails, then your printer may not be supported in Linux yet.
HTH,
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