On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, 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 > 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 .. > 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). > > HS > > > Thank you very much! I'm doing this from work and, once I get home from work, hope to try it out within the week at the latest!
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