hplip and hpliplite packages

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#46 Post by MU » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 07:07

I think in a consolewindow you had to type:
petget thepackage.pet

Mark

mow9902 · #47 Post by **mow9902** » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 07:30

Thanks for the quick reply MU

As you can tell - I am very new to all of this.

Per your advice I typed:
petget libnetsnmp-15.pet ...and the output was:

/usr/sbin/petget: line 1257: 4775 terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "PETget package manager"
Processing, please wait...."

...and another message almost exactly the same except
/usr/sbin/petget: line 1395: 4947 terminated (and then the rest the same)

I'm assuming this means that the petget script has terminated with some error for some reason; and the rest of the message is just the output of the orange box on the screen.

I get the same sort of error when I do a petget on the other package.

Any further advice would be very much appreciated. thanks

Is there any log file I can send or create to send to you so you can see exactly what I am seeing ?

#48 Post by MU » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 07:38

this looks ok.
Look in the hidden folder /root/.packages.
(Click on the eye in rox-filer to see hidden folders).

There you should have:
libnetsnmp-15.files
It lists all installed files (you can open it with the editor).

If it is not there, you still could extract them manually, and copy the contents to your system.
But it would be important to see, why petget will not work for you.

Mark

mow9902 · #49 Post by **mow9902** » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 00:37

Thanks Mark

I looked in the .packages directory and do NOT see the file libnetsnmp-15.files

BUT I do see the libnetsnmp-15.pet file there again ie it looks like instead of extracting any files, it simply moved a copy of the .pet file into the .packages directory.

How do I manually extract .pet files? thanks

As to why petget doesn't work the way it should - I have no idea. It has also worked fine in the past. How can I tell whether it is a problem with the pet package itself, or something in my system setup?

mow9902 · #50 Post by **mow9902** » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 05:44

Mark - thanks for your guidance. There must have been something wrong with the original package I downloaded. I downloaded both again, and they both worked fine this time - and my scanner is FINALLY working.

Sorry to have bothered you unnecessarily.

Henry · #51 Post by **Henry** » Sun 22 Mar 2009, 15:33

Hello,
I had been happily using gray's excellent Nop 4.1.2 with no problems. When he moved from an earlier Cups to 1.3.9 in Nop 4.1.3 printing with Hpliplite no longer worked, a problem also noted by others. This is being discussed in:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=60

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

lluamco · #52 Post by **lluamco** » Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:52

Hi Henry.
I have seen that you solved your printing problem using Patriot's hplip package. I'm glad you did. I must say that I do not understand yet why my
hpliplite packages do not print using NOP4.13. Happily, Patriot's work offers the solution in
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 823#286823 and
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 824#286824

Henry · #53 Post by **Henry** » Mon 23 Mar 2009, 17:00

Hi Iluamco,
Well, I don't understand of course. Your Hpliplite always worked with Nop 4.1.2. With 4.1.3 (whether a fresh start or an upgrade) it did not until I removed the lines containing lp

7: in /etc/passwd and /etc/group

All's well that end's well - thanks!
Henry

Patriot · #54 Post by **Patriot** » Tue 24 Mar 2009, 05:19

Hmmm ...

@lluamco
Frankly, your hpliplite pet is still a required package. So, between you and me, we both have all the grounds covered. Your hpliplite pet allows puppy users get on to their printing with cups 1.1.x - 1.2.x and my hplip pet gives puppy users with cups 1.3.x - 1.4.x their printouts.

So, I hope we both can work together and get hplip packages in order ... If you have the time and would like to maintain the hplip packages for all cups versions, please drop me a pm ... I'm always happy to reduce my load ....

Rgds

lluamco · #55 Post by **lluamco** » Fri 27 Mar 2009, 11:55

Puppy's using new cups, cups-v1.3.9 for instance, require an extra postinstall of hpliplite and hplip. Please find it attached in the first message of this thread, together with its installation instructions.

wah fun · #56 Post by **wah fun** » Fri 08 May 2009, 02:12

I tried to follow the instruction for the postinstall and the code:hpliplite-postinstall-cups-v1.3.9-v1.4b2 returned the error: command not found

Help please

lluamco · #57 Post by **lluamco** » Fri 08 May 2009, 08:56

wah fun wrote:I tried to follow the instruction for the postinstall and the code:
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hpliplite-postinstall-cups-v1.3.9-v1.4b2
returned the error: command not found

Help please

Please try instead:

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./hpliplite-postinstall-cups-v1.3.9-v1.4b2
Hope that helps.

BJF · #58 Post by **BJF** » Tue 21 Jul 2009, 09:01

Dear forum: I asked in a thread how to make a HP 2180 printer work under 4.2 on an Eeep (qv). Disciple refered me to this thread. My efforts were reported back as below:

Disciple: I went to lluamco's excellent article on hpliplite and did the advised installs. When came time to attend to the post install, I downloaded hpliplite-postinstall-cups-v1.3.9-v1.4b2.gz and attempted to unzip it. No error. Then I did chmod, and it returned a no such file. So I went to the file and made it search and execute-able from right click/properties. And ran it. Did the stop/start, then went off to the printer and attempted set-up. No output from printer. Any ideas? Perhaps via PM and submit valid results back to the forum.

Disciple suggested that I move my request over here, so here I am. Please, I'm a Noob. Lots of enthusiasm, not much know-how. Be gentle.

Thanks.

disciple · #59 Post by **disciple** » Sun 26 Jul 2009, 04:00

Its a pity we're not getting anywhere on that one...

I've discovered that after I scan (xsane) using my PSC1610, I need to reboot before I can print again (Cups says `- Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": No such device`)
Has anyone else experienced this?

disciple · #60 Post by **disciple** » Sat 22 Aug 2009, 04:18

Oh, right - I can print again if I turn the printer off and then back on. That's certainly better than restarting the computer.

lluamco · #61 Post by **lluamco** » Fri 04 Sep 2009, 09:33

@disciple
I do not reproduce your problem. Instead, I have found that if I suspend one of my computers, when resuming I need to execute:

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rmmod uhci_hcd 
modprobe uhci_hcd

to be able to print. I do not know if this can also apply in your case.

disciple · #62 Post by **disciple** » Fri 04 Sep 2009, 09:47

I think it is quite common to need to do that with different modules, but I think it is a different problem. Do you also find that you can't access a usb flash drive after suspending?

lluamco · #63 Post by **lluamco** » Mon 07 Sep 2009, 10:38

@disciple
Yes, you are right. It is a usb related problem.

lluamco · #64 Post by **lluamco** » Mon 07 Sep 2009, 10:59

hpliplite updated to version 3.9.8.
See first post

lluamco · #65 Post by **lluamco** » Wed 11 Nov 2009, 15:16

hpliplite updated to version 3.9.10.
See first post

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