-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just acquired a HP LaserJet Pro 400 multi-function printer model M475dw. I am now trying to set it up in my Debian Squeeze 6.0.9 box by using command "hplip-3.14.4.run" provided by http://hplipopensource.com. One of the packages required in order to set this printer up is python-dev.
Python-dev is in the Squeeze repository as version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7. It depends on python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 also in the Squeeze repository, but the version of python which is installed in my box is version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1. I note that the latter version of python is not in the squeeze-backports repository now, but it must have been there at some time in the past; otherwise I would not have been able to install it. (The same could also be said for python-minimal.) Apt-get will not however install package python-dev 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 because is specifically depends only on python with the same version number, not version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1. The result is that I cannot complete the setup for the new printer. With the intention of replacing both python and python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 I started by trying to run command "apt-get purge python". Apt-get wanted to remove 79 nine other packages and install four packages of the python3 family. It also wanted me to run "apt-get autoremove" to delete the entire kde-trinity and cups families and much else besides. Is there a way to replace python and python-minimal version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 without destroying anything else? Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlNXOFYACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcU8wCaArx7v0DA157/z0lbYh82hq6l L/kAn0ry5D3Iok+BjhzNybe1uGikgdIt =z/bk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
