2014-09-16 16:00 GMT+02:00 Till Kamppeter <[email protected]>: > On 09/16/2014 02:29 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> Hi! >> >> 2014-09-15 21:48 GMT+02:00 Till Kamppeter <[email protected]>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using the Python bindings of PackageKit in system-config-printer for >>> the automatic driver download )as DEB packages in Ubuntu). >>> [...] >> PackageKit developer here ;-) If you say "Python-bindings" you mean >> the python3-packagekit package? It looks like you are using the GIR, >> which is the correct way to talk to PackageKit from Python. > > Yes, I do. The script starts with > > #!/usr/bin/python3 > from gi.repository import GLib, PackageKitGlib > > which for me means use of GIR, with Python 3. > >> (Also, using PkTask instead of PkClient is recommended) > > What is the difference between PkTask and PkClient? PkTask is more high-level, it can show Eula actions, set up Debconf and handle GPG-keys. PkClient is pretty low-level.
>> The "printdriver" part means that the origin of this package is from >> the "printdriver" repository. > > Does thios mean that Epson has used the name "printdriver" somewhere on > their server? Yes: "'deb http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/"; >> Are you using Ubuntus apt-daemon, or PackageKits aptcc backend? > > I think that Ubuntu's apt-daemon is used. What is aptcc and how can I > check what gets actually used ("pkcon backend-details" gives no answer > at all)? Aptcc is the default PackageKit backend for Apt-based systems. It's implemented in C++ and pretty fast. You can install it using the packagekit-backend-aptcc package. Aptdaemon should jump out of the way then. The backend-details command should display the backend capabilities then. >> Can you install the package using pkcon? (you can also supply >> package-ids to the tool) > > "pkcon install openprinting-gutenprint" gives the same error ("Fatal > error: The versuion 5.2.7-1lsb3.2/printdriver of openprinting-gutenprint > isn't available."). Looks like somehow the backend does not handle 3rd-party repos properly. (apt update runs without errors?) Cheers, Matthias -- Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
