On 19.03.2019 0:38, Brian wrote: > The advice is good but is there a good reason to advocate installing > hplip from source rather than from the stretch package? > I didn't advocated per se the installation of upstream package, the point was to tell OP of it's existence, among the other things. As I stated before, I never used hplip myself, but it's good to know it is already in official repositories.
$ rmadison -s stretch,stretch-backports hplip hplip | 3.16.11+repack0-3 | stable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x hplip | 3.18.12+dfsg0-2~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x I would recommend to install upstream package only if the most recent version of it is absolutely required and I highly doubt it is required in this case. But even then, personally, I'd try to build a backport from source package available from 'experimental' first, or build from a tarball and use tools, like 'checkinstall', to make a simple deb package. Those procedures are right thing to do, but it's for the users to decide if they are up for the task, because these procedures often require serious time investment and expertise. -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
