On Friday, 22 February 2019 13:30:40 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> You are not alone.
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1120379/my-printer-adds-a-blue-background
That must have been posted after I did my search today.
> Not familiar with that one. What about /var/log/apt?
That has a lot of info about upgraded packages since I last printed. Here is
the relevant
tail:
Start-Date: 2019-02-21 16:01:29
Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages'
Requested-By: terry (1000)
Upgrade: libgs9:amd64 (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4,
9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.5),
ghostscript:amd64 (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4, 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.5),
ghostscript-x:amd64 (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4,
9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.5),
libgs9-common:amd64 (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4, 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.5)
End-Date: 2019-02-21 16:01:33
Start-Date: 2019-02-22 09:22:04
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libdns-export1102:amd64 (1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5,
1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1)
End-Date: 2019-02-22 09:22:06
Start-Date: 2019-02-22 09:22:09
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libisc-export169:amd64 (1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5,
1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1)
End-Date: 2019-02-22 09:22:10
Start-Date: 2019-02-22 09:22:13
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libisccfg160:amd64 (1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1),
libirs160:amd64 (1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1),
bind9-host:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1), dnsutils:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1), libisc169:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1), liblwres160:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1), libisccc160:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1), libbind9-160:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1), libdns1102:amd64
(1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.1)
End-Date: 2019-02-22 09:22:16
> What's the package that provides HPLIP? What does `apt-cache policy
> $packagename' show?
Well not a lot that meant anything to me. I tried typing:
apt-cache policy $packagename
exactly as you provided it, but it didn't really show anything useful:
apt-cache policy $packagename
I then tried:
apt-cache policy $hplip
and got exactly the same.
However, Synaptic informed me that HPLIP is provided by 3.18.7+dfsg1-2ubuntu2),
but the
changelog says it has not been changed since October.
I see that dfsg appears in the apt log, but that is dfsg-3, not dfsg1. I'm not
sure how
relevant that is.
I've posted the content of the apt log to the Ask Ubuntu site above in answer
to the
original question.
I await results....
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