Hello Mark,
Mark Purcell wrote:
> Version: 3.9.8-1
>
> On Sunday 01 November 2009 19:44:47 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> this is a moer general problem:
>> hp-check check the wrong things (or the package dependencies are
>> wrong).
>
>
> hplip now will advise if it is a run time checks or build time checks:
Really I mean only the runtime dependencies, and IMO these are:
or wrong checks (thus misleading) or wrong dependency on debian/control.
Try to install hplip in a new minimal system (without gnome and KDE):
hp-check -r will give a lot of errors in dependencies.
> Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
> 1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper
> dependencies are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
> 2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied
> tarball has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
> 3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time
> dependencies).
>
>
>> In this case:
>> hp-check execute "cups-config --version", but this command is available
>> only on cups-dev.
>
>
> Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
> error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
No, I mean line 326 of hp-check:
: log.info(log.bold("Checking for CUPS..."))
: cups_ok = True
:
: status, output = utils.run('lpstat -r')
Note: this command prints also a "scheduler is running", which is IMHO
not so nice and newbies friendly.
: if status == 0:
: log.info("Status: %s" % output.strip())
: else:
: log.error("Status: (Not available. CUPS may not be installed or
not running.)")
: cups_ok = False
: num_errors += 1
:
: if cups_ok:
: status, output = utils.run('cups-config --version')
: if status == 0:
: log.info("Version: %s" % output.strip())
: else:
: log.error("Version: (Not available. CUPS may not be
installed or not running.)")
: cups_ok = False
: num_errors += 1
This part last check is wrong: CUPS is installed, but the program uses
a cups-dev command. IMHO it should get the CUPS version using
an other method.
hp-check is only informative, but IMHO could give trouble to users
(as far I saw googling when solving my printer problem).
ciao
cate
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to
debian-printing-request@...
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@...
