HPLIP Update

[halw]

This morning received a notification that a new version, HPLIP-3.13.2, was available. Thought it was ok so I went forward with the upgrade.

Now it acting a bit wonky. HP Device Manager won't launch from the tool bar.

I'm getting the impression that I shouldn't have gone through with the upgrade.

Question, How do I get rid of the upgrade a go back to the HPLIP version in the repos? Will 'apt unistall' work? If so what is the exact syntax for the instruction?

FYI, this update was not done through Synaptic.

[sixonetonoffun]

If you have Synaptic installed you should be able to choose the one you want with force version. Or remove the one you have then reinstall the older version. Have ya tried a reboot just in case there was some deferred processing of configs to be done?

[vinnywright]

This morning received a notification that a new version, HPLIP-3.13.2, was available. Thought it was ok so I went forward with the upgrade.

Now it acting a bit wonky. HP Device Manager won't launch from the tool bar.

I'm getting the impression that I shouldn't have gone through with the upgrade.

Question, How do I get rid of the upgrade a go back to the HPLIP version in the repos? Will 'apt unistall' work? If so what is the exact syntax for the instruction?

FYI, this update was not done through Synaptic.

what informed you of the update? & what was the update done through ?

VINNY

[Detonate]

The version in the universe repository is 3.12.6, and the date of the last update was Nov 2012. So the update must have come from somewhere else. So I think you should identify where the update came from, remove that source from your repositories, then run

sudo apt-get remove hplip
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hplip

[Qqmike]

Hmmm ... fwiw, I'm using 12.04 and have accepted tons of updates this past two or three weeks. And yet my hplip is still 3.12.2. (In a rush lately, I didn't examine the updates closely enough to recall seeing hplip specifically; I just accepted everything, but obviously, hplip wasn't included for a version change.)