[cups] hp 2820 / cups 2.1.3

[Christopher Barry]

On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 23:51:55 +0100
Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 16:50:06 -0400, Christopher Barry wrote:
>
>> 
>> Greetings, for some weird reason I can't get cups to print to this
>> printer anymore. The printer was physically having issues, and I had
>> deleted the printer from the configuration. I have since fixed the
>> printer, but can't configure it again.
>> 
>> system-config-printer starts and shows the printer in it's list
>> for network printer. I select it, connection type says AppSocket/HP
>> JetDirect, I click forward, a dialog appears saying 'Searching for
>> Drivers' for a few seconds until it outputs the following:
>> 
>> No ID match for device socket://192.168.111.150:
>> MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP Color LaserJet
>> 2820;CMD:PJL,PML,MLC,PCL,POSTSCRIPT,PCLXL;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color
>> LaserJet 2820; No ID match for device socket://192.168.111.150:9100:
>> MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP Color LaserJet
>> 2820;CMD:PJL,PML,MLC,PCL,POSTSCRIPT,PCLXL;DES:Hewlett-Packard Color
>> LaserJet 2820;
>> 
>> 
>> The 'Searching...' dialog returns again for a bit longer before going
>> away, with the 'Select Device' dialog hanging forever with a spinning
>> cursor. Nothing else gets output to the terminal.
>> 
>> I must kill the job in another terminal to stop it.
>> 
>> Now, cups and system-config-printer are likely not at all related,
>> and you probably want me to use something else like my browser to
>> localhost:631. Problem is I can't save anything that way, and I am
>> loathe to run my browser as root or login to a web page as root.
>> 
>> What should I do?  
>
>If you were using Debian I would advise:
>
>Install the printer-driver-postscript-hp package, search the output of
>'lpinfo -m' for 'Color LaserJet 2800' and get the *.ppd portion of the
>line. Then
>
>  lpadmin -p hp2820 -v socket://192.168.111.150 -E -m
> postscript-hp:.....
>
>Regards,
>
>Brian.
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Thanks Brian,

I actually am using debian sid, and attempting to install that (or
hplip) it gags with:

...
E: Conf Broken perl-base:amd64
E: Fatal, conflicts violated perl-modules-5.22:amd64
E: Conf Broken perl-modules-5.22:amd64
E: Fatal, conflicts violated perl-modules-5.22:amd64

both of:

$ apt-get --fix-{broken,missing} install

show no errors however. I was thinking that certain .*:i386 packages I
have installed may be part of the issue, but I'm not entirely sure how
to debug this.

whole output here:
http://pastebin.com/9CEiU7f4

attempting to manually remove these 5 slated for removal:
libhttp-server-simple-perl libperl5.18 libwww-mechanize-perl
perl-modules shutter

gags with a similar dump as the pastebin.


Trying to manually install perl-modules:

[-][~]# apt-get -s install perl-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 perl-modules : Depends: perl-base (>= 5.20.2-3+deb8u4) but 5.18.2-7 is
to be installed Breaks: perl (< 5.20.2~) but 5.18.2-7 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I realize this is unrelated to cups, and OT, so please forgive and
ignore if you prefer.

Thanks

-- 
Regards,
Christopher