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Offline Howard

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Printer packages missing.
« on: June 10, 2012, 09:45:43 AM »
I've just has to re-install LXDE after my much upgraded 2010 installation failed to boot (partition still available for plundering from another installation fortunately, so all my firefox and thunderbird data could be recovered easily) .  All went well except that there were no printer packages installed - the blurb says they ought to be there.  No serious problem once I had realised.

Is this something I've not done?  Or is it really missing from the iso?
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2012, 10:55:27 AM »
Quote from: Howard on June 10, 2012, 09:45:43 AM
I've just has to re-install LXDE after my much upgraded 2010 installation failed to boot (partition still available for plundering from another installation fortunately, so all my firefox and thunderbird data could be recovered easily) .  All went well except that there were no printer packages installed - the blurb says they ought to be there.  No serious problem once I had realised.

Is this something I've not done?  Or is it really missing from the iso?


http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101495.0.html

Use the forum search for it (there is a lot about printers).

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« Last Edit: June 10, 2012, 11:33:39 AM by JohnW_57 »
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2012, 11:18:53 AM »
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2012, 11:43:04 AM »
Thanks both, but if you read me carefully you would see that I wasn't asking how to install the printer packages, that wasn't a problem once I had realised they were missing.  

What I was asking was "Why does it say in the list of packages included on the download page that they are there when they are not?"

If I had installed them at the live CD stage would they be there in the permanent installation?
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2012, 11:48:31 AM »
Quote from: Howard on June 10, 2012, 11:43:04 AM

What I was asking was "Why does it say in the list of packages included on the download page that they are there when they are not?"



Interesting question, maybe i would generate a smaller Iso as before, and so i moved this packages.
Or i simple forgotten to add it  ;D.

Is it needed on an Iso?
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2012, 12:24:12 PM »
depending on the ISO I think.. the mini LXDE I know is missing the printer packages.
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2012, 01:14:03 PM »
In Neal's post about the differences between the full and mini ISOs it says that both have the printer package.  (After all who's likely to want a computer without a printer?)

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Printer support for many local and networked printer devices.


http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,87311.0.html
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2012, 02:05:53 PM »
Howard,
That post is now outdated. Printer packages are no longer included on the LXDE-Mini ISO.     
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2012, 02:45:10 PM »
It was the full one that I installed not the mini.  It must even more outdated than you thought.
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2012, 02:46:45 PM »
see my last post in this thread...
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2012, 02:53:06 PM »
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Is it needed on an Iso?

I would say yes if it's intended to be a more or less fully functioning installation on a computer.

But since you admit you might have just forgotten it let's leave it at that - it's no big deal.
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2012, 02:58:20 PM »
Quote from: Howard on June 10, 2012, 02:53:06 PM
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Is it needed on an Iso?

I would say yes if it's intended to be a more or less fully functioning installation on a computer.

But since you admit you might have just forgotten it let's leave it at that - it's no big deal.

Then we will add it in the next Iso (full-lxde), again...
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2012, 03:02:58 PM »
Quote from: Howard on June 10, 2012, 02:45:10 PM
It was the full one that I installed not the mini.  It must even more outdated than you thought.
     
That post was more than a year ago. A lot can change in a year.     
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2012, 03:08:51 PM »
Positively my last post on the topic - I was only trying to point out a discrepancy , but it also has the same info here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=188
and that's more recent.
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Re: Printer packages missing.
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2012, 07:26:30 PM »
CD might be getting pushed more towards DVD.. :)
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