HPLIP pet: How to upload ? (SOLVED)

[Billwho?]

Thank you. I tried installing both a .deb and a .tgz as alien packages. With the .tgz, Pet-Get exited with errors and told me to clean-up the /root/.packages directory. With the .deb, Pet-Get reported it as installed, but it really wasn't. Oh well, I assume it probably works with some packages and not with others.

I have found that usually when a package fails to install like the .tgz you mentioned. The name of the tarball and the parent directory it contains are not exactly the same eg.
tarball = my-package.tar.gz,
parent directory =my-package-0.0.1.
The easiest way to check would probably be to untar the package in a temporary directory and compare the names here.

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tar xvfz my-package.tar.gz

If the names are different re-tar the new directory with a new name

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tar cvfz my-package-0.0.1.tar.gz my-package-0.0.1

.deb and .rpm packages I am not sure about, but I think they can be installed with PSI. I have not installed either since PSI was incorporated into Puppy.
If you find you cant try this from a terminal.
for .deb

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 dpkg --install my-package.deb

or

What I used to do back then was create my own alien tar.gz files from them this way.

1/ Open the package
for deb

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undeb my-package.deb 

for rpm

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unrpm my-package.rpm

2/ create a directory called my-package if it does not already exist
3/ move all the directories an files from the original package into the my-package directory
4/ Create a new tarball as mentioned above making sure the name of the directory and the tarball are identical.

[SimplyFlower]

Billwho?, thank you. I'll give your suggestions a try the next time.

[MU]

mirror:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Printing/hpli ... a-i486.pet (45 MB)

Mark

[lluamco]

Thank you, Mark.
The file http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Printing/hpli ... a-i486.pet
has now a more standard and permanent location.

NOTE: A previous version with an extra v2 suffix did not install properly.
The solution is to rename hplip_for_puppy_217-1.7.4a-i486.v2.pet to
hplip_for_puppy_217-1.7.4a-i486.pet
Now the file should install (please give feedback otherwise).

Notice that the pet install requires a large amount of free disk space.
This can be avoided using the instructions given by Billwho? in a previous message in this threat.

[edoc]

Any chance that this expanded HP multi-function printer support found its way into
the new version Puppy 3.00?

Anyone tested it under 3.00?

[lluamco]

I checked the hplip pet in version 3.00 and it worked perfectly. I hope it will work for you too.

[lluamco]

Please notice that in order to use the hplip package under puppy linux 3.01, the file hpijs must be manually included in the /usr/bin directory.
I attach the gzipped file. In a terminal, do:

gunzip hpijs.gz
chmod +x hpijs
cp hpijs /usr/bin

[Eastern Counties]

I have upgraded to Puppy 3.01 from 2.17, but haven't been able to get hplip to work, whereas it did in 2.17. I installed it using the pet package and all seemed fine, but when I try to run Setup, I get this message:

'import site'failed; use -v traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/getopt.py", line 37 in <module>
import os
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 690 in <module>
import copy_reg as copy_reg
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/copy_reg.py", line 7 in <module>
from types import ClassType as _ClassType
ImportError: No module named types

but have no idea what it means. Any clues?

Thanks
John
PS I saved the message as a screen capture png file. How do I insert it in a message to save typing it out?

[Eastern Counties]

Its OK, all sorted now, but not certain which operation did it.

I uninstalled HPLIP and downloaded the pet again, but from megaupload this time. I installed the libgphoto.pet and then re-installed HPLIP and this time it worked perfectly.

John

[minoruhackerguy]

This all looks very great. XD I can't wait to install. I have a crappy printer that could REALLY use the HPLIP drivers.

Kudo's to the both of you.

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Oh, and, Next time you need a good place to host something, you should try wikiupload. There is a 5gb file size limit and WAY less adds that megaupload.

[HairyWill]

thank you
hplip works great for me on puppy 3.01 using a HP C5180 multi-function.

I used the pet on puppylinux.ca. It took me a while of looking at logs to work out that I needed hpijs as well. It might be a good idea to repackage the pet to include it or at least give the user a warning that it is missing.

[olovram]

would you mind uploading it to rapidshare or anywhere else, 'cause im from mexico and i cant download from megaupload:(

[HairyWill]

there are a couple of other locations for it here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25482

Does Mexico block access to megaupload?

[olovram]

thank you:)
no not actually, but i cant download it cuase every time i access theese appears "All download slots assigned to your country (Mexico) are currently in use. Please try again in a few hours or install the Megaupload Toolbar for immediate access - with the toolbar installed, there are no more slot limitations for you!"