Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] > It was not intentional to have both at the same time, but I suspect that I > didn't adequately remove everything from mandriva before trying the > sourceforge package. I had to use --nodeps, because it wanted to take out > various other things. Presumably I left in something important. Similarly, > when going back to the mandriva rpm I haven't properly cleaned out the > sourceforge one. > >> To test for this, I would simply delete the mandriva rpm and then rerun >> hp-check. >> > That still carried references to 2.7.9, which seems to confirm it. > [...] >> > OK - I've made a fair stab at it. Now, /var/run/hplip seems to have gone but > > /var/run/hpiod.pid > /var/run/hpiod.port > > are left. Are these part of the package? Not directly. Imho these are just leftover process ids from what you had running. More precisely I think this is from hpijs.
Maybe you can check whether you still have such a package installed on your machine? If not, you most probably can remove these process ids like this, for example: ps aux |grep hpiod kill "numer of hpiod-process" Note: The sourceforge hplip package includes hpijs! So if there is one on your PC, remove it before you install the new one. > > All the /usr/share/hplip/ stuff has gone. Excellent! Just to be sure, iirc I used something like this as root: find / -name "hplip*" or find / | grep -i hplip Can you give me a hint as to where > else I should look before trying a clean install? Well, if the above does not yield anything relevant, imho you are ready for a clean install. > > Would you recommend the sourceforge package rather than the mandriva one? Yes. However I am in no way a mandriva or hplip guru. Nevertheless the hplip package from sourceforge is usually very simple to install and without doubt, it is much more recent than your mandriva supplied rpm. On the flipside, you probably will need to install a few develeopment packages to be able to compile hplip properly, but this is properly explained on the webpages. And if you did it once, then anything will already be there... Good luck and please report back what you get. kind regards Eberhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list HPLIP-Help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
