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Topic: libpaper1 won't configure, arrrrgh

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smee

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Posted: June 23 2005,05:58

ok. dsl is great - i've used it since the beginning, and each time a try a new (full or mini) distro, i switch back.

here's the problem. trying to get my samsung laser printer working. that means i need new drivers. every package i try to add - cups or anything print related, gets stuck on libpaper1

dpkg error 1... and it wont configure, and then i can't install anything dependent on that, and am stuck with no printer.

i've tried seemingly every option in apt-get and dpkg, installing and re-installing, forcing every option, ignoring faults... to no avail.

any ideas on how i can get libpaper1 working? "dpkg reported error 1" doesn't really tell me much about why it fails.

clacker

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Posted: June 23 2005,12:16

smee, arrrrgh is right! I had this same problem trying to install tetex. I narrowed it down to two lines in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaper1.postinst

db_get libpaper/defaultpaper

or

ucf --debconf-ok /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst /etc/papersize

I think it's the second because when I try to run this as root on the command line, it gives no error but also doesn't create the /etc/papersize file. I wasn't able make it work with any of the things I tried. It looks like the last part of that script looks at the md5 sum of /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst and compares it to the md5sum of the /etc/papersize that should be there. If they are the same file, you might be able to cp /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst /etc/papersize, remove that whole section from the file, and trying apt-get -f install again. Then you don't get the error.

smee

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Posted: June 23 2005,14:47

hmmm... you took it one step further.i tried running both of those script lines, and found another possible problem. running the first line gives "db_get: command not found"

what package is db_get from?

ke4nt1

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Posted: June 23 2005,15:24

...anyone try the cups.dsl in the testing area??

I didn't see any samsung drivers in it,
but it may get you past this stopping point ?

73
ke4nt

smee

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Posted: June 23 2005,16:11

trying cups.dls now - you know the samsung ml-1740 comes with drivers and software for LINUX!!! go, samsung. it's all KDE (win-cough) of course, and i can't get the install even to start.

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