Re: Hewlett-Packard package conflicts

[Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@HiWAAY.net>]

Hendrik Sattler wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 16:29 schrieb Gayle Lee Fairless:
>  
>
> > I posted a question to Debian User about package conflicts between
> > hpoj(sp?) and hplip(sp?) that are for parallel HP printers and usb HP
> > printers.  My HP 697C is parallel, and my HP psc1210 is usb.
> >    
>
> No, hpoj and hplip should not conflict, at least not according to hpoj 
> website. This was fixed in hplip-0.9.3-3 (Debian unstable).
> To fix this for your version:
> mkdir hplip
> cd hplip
> apt-get source hplip
>  
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libcupsys2-dev 
libsnmp5-dev (>> 5
.1.2-6) python-qt3 pyqt-tools dpatch (>= 2)

I also had to get a few extra packages.  Fortunately, that was routine.  
Aptitude installed about 15 more packages.

> cd hplip-0.9.2
> #the follow or manually editing debian/control
> sed -i -e 's/hpoj, //' debian/control
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us
> cd ..
>  


Gcomm:/home/gayle/drivers/hplip# dpkg --force-conflicts -i hplip*.deb

I found out that I had to force it.


> dpkg -i hplip*.deb
>
>  
>
> > administration.  The hpoj package created an entry in ptal something about
> > mlc:usb: etc.  I was wondering if this is the famous URI (Uniform Resource
> > Indicator?) that is supposed to find the usb printer which I think the
> > system picks up as usblp0.  (That '0' is a zero.)
> >    
>
> See hpoj package description:
>  - An application programming interface (API) known as "PTAL" (Peripheral
>  Transport Abstraction Library) that hides the differences in accessing
>  devices connected via parallel, USB, or JetDirect.
>
>  
>
> > I wonder if it is possible to force aptitude to install those 2
> > conflicting packages and somehow match them to the appropriate printer?
> >    
>
> Not cleanly without rebuilding the package (but that's easy, see above).
>  
And I apparently succeeded as follows:

gayle@Gcomm:~/drivers/hplip$ dpkg -l | grep hp
ii  foomatic-db-hp 1.5-20050420-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - 
database
ii  hp-ppd         0.5            HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) 
files
ii  hp2xx          3.4.4-2        A HPGL converter into some vector- and 
raste
ii  hp48cc         1.3-3.1        C-like compiler which produces HP48 RPN
ii  hpijs          2.1.2+0.9.2-2  HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS 
drive
ii  hplip          0.9.2-2        HP Linux Printing and Imaging System 
(hplip)
ii  hplip-data     0.9.2-2        HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files
ii  hpoj           0.91-4         HP OfficeJet Linux driver (hpoj)
ii  hpscanpbm      0.3a-11        HP ScanJet scanning utility
gayle@Gcomm:~/drivers/hplip$ 


> HS
>
>
>  

Well, that was the 'easy' part!  Now I have to get it working together!  
I still need to get CUPS appropriately configured.  I can get into using 
the browser and URL localhost:631 or the printer wizard.  I don't know 
which is best.

I appreciate the suggestions!

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(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760.
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