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devuanitaviejo

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[SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

I recently switched to the Excalibur distribution. I have an HP Officejet 9010 printer and I can't get it to work. I see that the hplip package is not in the testing version of debian (trixie) either. How can I fix this?

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

Wait until it comes back.

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

I think this is not a good idea. It seems that hplip is walking dead according to this post.

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php … 50#p769450

The replacement seems to be libsane-hpaio but I can't get it installed either.

Dutch_Master

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

Post the content of the file /etc/apt/sources.list (use the code button to mark it from your normal text)

You may need to enable particular repositories.

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

Actually both packages, hplip and libsane-hpaio are in both the stable and experimental versions but not in testing. :-(

golinux

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

You problem is self-inflicted when you use "testing".

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devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

# deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 4.0 chimaera amd64 - netinstall 20211012]/ chimaera non-free main contrib   

# deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 4.0 chimaera amd64 - netinstall 20211012]/ chimaera contrib main non-free   

deb [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged/[/url] excalibur non-free contrib main   
# deb-src [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged/[/url] daedalus main non-free contrib  

# deb [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged/[/url] daedalus-security non-free contrib main  
# deb-src [url]http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/[/url] daedalus-security non-free contrib main  

# chimaera-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see [url]https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports[/url]
# deb [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged/[/url] daedalus-updates main  
# deb-src [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged/[/url] daedalus-updates non-free contrib main  

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

Did you not see Dutch_Master's post above?

Last edited by golinux (Yesterday 15:13:28)

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … p&x=submit

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

If the problem was generated when I switched to the ‘testing’ version, I will try to fix it, not self-punish ;-)
is it possible to install hplip and its dependencies by adding the ceres repository just for that and then unmark it?

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

For completeness you should add non-free-firmware to your sources.list.

Using Ceres: it may work, it also can brick your system.

Procedure:
Add this line to your sources.list

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ ceres main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Run the following commands

# apt update
# apt -t ceres install hplip

Then comment out Ceres in your sources.list and run another apt update.

No warrenty.

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

Indeed, I added the repository with the ceres version to the sources.list and was able to install hplip. The printer worked. In the synaptic configuration I chose to prefer the testing version to avoid upgrading to the experimental version. I don't know if this would not require unchecking the ceres repository from the sources.list. If I didn't do something stupid I think I can mark the thread as ‘solved’. What do you guys think?

fsmithred

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

The version in ceres will probably be in excalibur in less than a week. You didn't do anything wrong. You would need to install more packages or do an upgrade with the ceres repo enabled to screw up the system.

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

Thank you very much for everyone's contributions. Without you I would not have solved the problem.

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

I recommend strongly to put a hash # before the ceres line.

devuanitaviejo

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Re: [SOLVED] I can't install hplip on Excalibur

So it wouldn't uninstall the package when I went to update the system, I wouldn't have to force version first or something rolfie?