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MU · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 03:07 Post subject:

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

Mark

mow9902 · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 103

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 ?

MU · Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009, 03:38 Post subject:

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 · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 103

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 · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 103

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 · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 811 Location: Oregon USA

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/viewtopic.php?t=39578&start=60

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

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.php?p=286823#286823 and
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=286824#286824

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 811 Location: Oregon USA

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

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

Patriot · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734

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 .... Wink

Rgds

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

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 · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 22

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 · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

BJF · Posted: Tue 21 Jul 2009, 05:01 Post subject:

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 · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009, 00:00 Post subject:

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 · Posted: Sat 22 Aug 2009, 00:18 Post subject:

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