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As usual like a dog chasing my own tail ,I have been scooting around the net looking for info on installing an HP 4050 lazerjet on Slackware. 14.xx Lots of info . But nothing works . lsusb ,no instance. tried with GUI . nowt.Tried term root . Lots of red warnings .hp-setup will show nothing . I (and no doubt many others) would be grateful for line by line install instructions . Many thanks for any assistance .

Hi everone! Well my Knoppix Linux is in a tizzy! I tried to install the "hplip" printer application for my HP 8600 all-in-one printer. I've tried everything, with no luckl So, guess what? One of you'se got to have the solution or I'm printerless. In this case, Knoppix is running in a one gig USB memory stick. And no, not as a "live" version. This one has presence in the stick. It has built-in memory for daily computing. Turn if off, and come back again, and nothing is lost. It's giving my Acer Netbook a new life, without binding up like it usually does with WinXP. However, this time, I'd like to be able to use the printer function in this OS. Here below, you will see the error mesages that I'm getting. If one of you is a Dick Tracey, and know the solution, kindly let me know! apt-get -f install perl-base libperl5.14 libhpmud0 libsnmp15 printer-driver-hpcups Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done perl-base is already the newest version. 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: libperl5.14 : Depends: perl-base (= 5.14.2-21+deb7u1) but 5.18.2-7 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. The stickler is the "broken packages" "held". Where are those broken packages hiding, so that I can strangle them!? I've tried everything using Synaptic, and when that didin't work, I started using "apt-get" and all available commands to delete those "held broken packages". The system can't handle it! Above, is just one of the examples of what I tried to do. I was trying to load missing depemdencies manually to see if that would work. Did that effort work? Of course not! Where are those broken packages "held"? How do you go about fixing this? At first the error was that it couldn't unravel HPLIP, Then it's now progressed to what you see ablove. Cheers!

I doubt there's anyone around here as dense as I am who needs reminding, but don't forget HPLIP. Stupidly, because my old HP printer functioned, albeit s-l-o-w-l-y, I assumed all was okay. My parallel-port-connected HP printer wasn't detected at all during OpenSuSE install on ancient Dell desktop recently, and when I got around to working with it today I realized I should be taking the alternative HP setup in YaST that pulls in HPLIP drivers, then sets up through HPLIP. Same appears to be true with the USB connected printer on newer laptop. Judging by the speed of the test page output, it seems that the snail's pace printing I've encountered for the last couple of years may have been due to my own stupidity.