Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:48:10 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Hi! I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it. I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 all-in-one printer. Jessie has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in the Wheezy backports but to no avail. Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5? Docker? Has anyone tried that on Wheezy? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140321032005.76eff8cf@mydesk
Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:05:34 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: You could also just try downloading the Jessie package and:- # dpkg -i $JessiePackage An alternative (to avoid dependency problems) might be to download the printer-driver-hpijs package, extract /usr/share/cups/drv/hpijs.drv and use it tp replace the file in stable. The same may be done with the printer-driver-hpcups package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21032014104839.f524e2d5c...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
Le 21.03.2014 01:48, Rick Thomas a écrit : Hi! I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it. I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 all-in-one printer. Jessie has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in the Wheezy backports but to no avail. Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5? Thanks for any help! Rick You probably want to do some apt-pinning on cups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/122926192629fc05098b7b443c744...@neutralite.org
Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 14:05:02 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 21.03.2014 01:48, Rick Thomas a écrit : Hi! I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it. I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 all-in-one printer. Jessie has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in the Wheezy backports but to no avail. Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5? Thanks for any help! Rick You probably want to do some apt-pinning on cups. If that route is taken it would introduce less drastic change to the system if only the two packages already mentioned were pinned. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21032014155125.48d71584b...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
Hi! I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it. I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 all-in-one printer. Jessie has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in the Wheezy backports but to no avail. Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5? Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/bed85fcb-fb26-4e87-a4a7-e85c7622c...@pobox.com
Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
On 21/03/14 11:48, Rick Thomas wrote: HP OfficeJet 4630 http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_4630_series.html http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/09/install-hp-linux-printer-driver-in-ubuntu/ https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+HP+OfficeJet+4630 Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/532b8eb2.2070...@gmail.com
Re: Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.
On 21/03/14 11:58, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 21/03/14 11:48, Rick Thomas wrote: HP OfficeJet 4630 http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_4630_series.html http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/09/install-hp-linux-printer-driver-in-ubuntu/ https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+HP+OfficeJet+4630 Kind regards You could also just try downloading the Jessie package and:- # dpkg -i $JessiePackage If it fails to remove it (provided you don't have Jessie repositories enabled:- # apt-get -f install Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/532b905e.3020...@gmail.com
