Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 14:05:02 +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> Le 21.03.2014 01:48, Rick Thomas a écrit :
> >Hi!
> >
> >I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on
> >shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit shutdown).
> >So I have to use Wheezy on it.
> >
> >I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 "all-in-one" printer. Jessie
> >has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in the
> >Wheezy "backports" but to no avail.
> >
> >Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a
> >Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5?
> >
> >Thanks for any help!
> >
> >Rick
>
> You probably want to do some apt-pinning on cups.
If that route is taken it would introduce less drastic change to the
system if only the two packages already mentioned were pinned.
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