My apologies for the delayed reply. I can no longer run tests on the PC on which the problem first occurred. The printer driver update was essential, so I chose to upgrade the PC from 8.04 LTS (Hardy) to 8.10 (Intrepid). The following results are from another PC that runs 8.04 LTS.
I must make a note here: The machine where the error first occurred was running 8.04 LTS (Hardy), but it had originally been installed using Ubuntu 6.06LTS (Dapper Drake). It was later migrated to Hardy. This might possibly affect the package conflict resolution settings used by aptitude. In the coming days, I will try to recreate the same configuration on another machine, and then repeat the tests below. If the results are any different, I will report them. In the mean time, here are the results from the other PC. The result from 'apt-get -s remove hplip hpijs' is: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: foomatic-db-hpijs hpijs hplip 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 23 not upgraded. Remv foomatic-db-hpijs [20070813-0ubuntu2] Remv hpijs [2.8.2+2.8.2-0ubuntu8.1] Remv hplip [2.8.2-0ubuntu8.1] The result from 'aptitude -s remove hplip hpijs' is probably not what you were asking for. Because the flag '--assume-yes' is not given, aptitude proposes many different possible solutions, and asks the user to accept one of them. Example: :Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: foomatic-db-hpijs The following packages will be REMOVED: hpijs hplip 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1888kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: foomatic-db-hpijs: Depends: hpijs (> 2) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: foomatic-db-hpijs hal-cups-utils hplip-data system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-desktop Score is 464 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] I have also tested the same command with the mentioned flag added, like 'aptitude -s remove --assume-yes hplip hpijs'. The result was: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: foomatic-db-hpijs The following packages will be REMOVED: hpijs hplip 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1888kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: foomatic-db-hpijs: Depends: hpijs (> 2) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: foomatic-db-hpijs hal-cups-utils hplip-data system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-desktop Score is 464 The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: foomatic-db-hpijs hal-cups-utils hplip-data system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-desktop The following packages will be REMOVED: foomatic-db-hpijs hal-cups-utils hpijs hplip hplip-data system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-desktop 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 16.1MB will be freed. Would download/install/remove packages. -- Installer removes many unrelated packages! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363750 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
