Well i dug into this a bit more, i used dpkg --contents to enumerate the install directories and manually input each folder and file into persistence.conf, however when i rebooted and tried to install the drivers again it said "install failed device is busy". I tried to delete the folders that tails had created as placeholders so that the drivers would replace them, however it gave me the same error, along the lines that 'the device is busy, a process is utilizing it'. This is where im stuck, if i could delete these files/folders then the driver would install and tails would remember them, but i cant figure out what process is using it that wont even let root delete them, any idea how i could solve this? Is there a level higher than root that would override this?
-------- Original Message -------- From: intrigeri <[email protected]> Apparently from: [email protected] To: User support for Tails <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tails-support] =-Printer Persistence-= Need to know thedriver-install directories Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:57:42 +0200 > Hi, > > [email protected] wrote (08 Jun 2014 17:49:24 GMT) : > > I added the line: > > > /usr/share/ppd > [...] > > /usr/lib/cups > > > so i added that to persistence.conf, > > By doing that, you're persisting *much* more than your printer > drivers, and you'll miss any security update in CUPS, or driver > printers, that Debian releases (and Tails forwards). Moreover, this > will very likely break the printing system entirely when you upgrade > to Tails based on Debian 7 (Wheezy), once it's out. So, I strongly > recommend against doing that. > > > There must be another directory to make persistent here, does anyone > > know what that might be? > > You can use `dpkg -L PACKAGE' to get a list of files installed by > a given .deb. But that's more of a generic Debian usage question, > so is getting quickly off-topic here. > > Unfortunately, Tails' "Additional software packages" persistence > feature does not support installing packages that are not part of > Debian. To solve your problem, either that feature could be added to > Tails, or (much better!) your printer drivers should be added to > Debian: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > > I'm sorry to conclude that, in the current state of Tails, I see no > sane way to avoid reinstalling the .deb's by hand on every boot, > whenever you need to print things. > > Cheers, > -- > intrigeri > | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc > | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc > _______________________________________________ > tails-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > [email protected]. _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
