Debian: LSB package for OpenPrinting driver
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I have an [old printer](http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=product&locale=en&productCode=1100_COLOR_JETPRINTER&segment=SUPPORT&userlocale=EN_UK#1) which requires the LSB package in order to install the OpenPrinting driver in Debian:
[Preparation of LSB-compliant distributions](https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/database/driverpackages)
However, the current version of Debian no longer support LSB:
[Debian discontinued LSB support in 2015](https://wiki.debian.org/LSB)
Therefore, I'm not able to install the OpenPrinting driver of this printer on Debian Buster.
Any idea how to solve that?
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# Follow-up
Following some advices, I tried to install the LSB package from Ubuntu.
So, I downloaded the LSB package from Ubuntu 19.04 available at https://pkgs.org/
Then I tried to install via the following command:
dpkg -i lsb_10.2019031300ubuntu1_all.deb
However, some dependencies were missing:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lsb:
lsb depends on lsb-core (>= 10.2019031300ubuntu1); however: Package lsb-core is not installed.
lsb depends on lsb-printing (>= 10.2019031300ubuntu1); however: Package lsb-printing is not installed.
Then I've downloaded the lsb-core package and tried to install it:
dpkg -i lsb-core_10.2019031300ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Again, dependencies issues:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lsb-core:
lsb-core depends on libncurses5; however: Package libncurses5 is not installed.
lsb-core depends on lsb-invalid-mta (>= 10.2019031300ubuntu1) however: Package lsb-invalid-mta is not installed.
lsb-core depends on at; however: Package at is not installed.
lsb-core depends on binutils; however: Package binutils is not installed.
lsb-core depends on ed; however: Package ed is not installed.
lsb-core depends on libc6-dev | libc-dev; however:Package libc6-dev is not installed. Package libc-dev is not installed.
lsb-core depends on cups-bsd | lpr; however: Package cups-bsd is not installed. Package lpr is not installed.
lsb-core depends on m4; however: Package m4 is not installed.
lsb-core depends on mailx | mailutils; however: Package mailx is not installed. Package mailutils is not installed.
lsb-core depends on make; however: Package make is not installed.
lsb-core depends on patch; however: Package patch is not installed.
lsb-core depends on pax; however: Package pax is not installed.
lsb-core depends on rsync; however: Package rsync is not installed.
lsb-core depends on alien (>= 8.36); however: Package alien is not installed.
lsb-core depends on lsb-security (>= 10.2019031300ubuntu1); however: Package lsb-security is not installed.
lsb-core depends on time; however: Package time is not installed.
It seems that this is not the way to go.
Any idea?
Asked by Mark Messa
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Nov 21, 2019, 11:04 PM
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