[ale] printers

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu May 8 2008, Scott Castaline wrote:
> According to the hplip site Ubuntu 8.04 directly supports that printer,
> so assuming that ( and I don't like to use the word assume), all of the
> software was installed to include all of the ppd files (which are the
> actual drivers). As plug and play Ubuntu is supposed to be, it should
> have detected it and installed the necessary sftwe. I know with Fedora
> 8, I didn't have any problems switching from a 2610 to a 7780L HP. You
> may want to check through synaptic (?) (or whatever the pkg mgr name is,
> I don't remember, and see if the foomatic ppd package has been
> installed. Also run hp-check, it's a diagnostic that checks to see if
> and what you maybe missing and other related problems. It will dump what
> scrolls on the screen into a file hp-check.log. Run it as root or sudo
> hp-check.

I'm not using ubuntu on my desktop, it is Debian Lenny ( testing). Still, the 
PPD is installed, but I will run hp-check:

Checking for permissions of USB attached printers...
 
HP Device 0xba02 at 004:006: 
    Device URI: hp:/usb/Photosmart_8100_series?serial=MY4681M0GS040Z
    Device node: /dev/bus/usb/004/006
    Mode: 0666

HP Device 0x4f11 at 001:005: 
    Device URI: hp:/usb/Officejet_5600_series?serial=CN58BCF21H04CY
    Device node: /dev/bus/usb/001/005
    Mode: 0666

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| SUMMARY |
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error: 6 errors and/or warnings.

Summary of needed commands to run to satisfy missing dependencies:
su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libsane-dev"
su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y sane"

Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html
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oh, I remember this now... try to install libsane-dev, depends on

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libsane-dev: Depends: libgphoto2-2-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

try to install libgphoto2:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgphoto2-2-dev: Depends: libexif-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

try to install libexif-dev:
e# apt-get install --force-yes -y  libexif-dev

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libexif-dev: Depends: libexif12 (= 0.6.13-5etch2) but 0.6.16-2.1 is to be 
installed
E: Broken packages



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Paul Cartwright
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