Monday, March 7, 2016

openSUSE Leap 42.1 Transition

We recently (1 March 2016) transitioned the home machine and remote server to openSUSE Leap 42.1. It is a hybrid of stable and development packages:
     https://news.opensuse.org/2015/11/04/opensuse-leap-42-1-becomes-first-hybrid-distribution/

Remarkably smooth transition.

A few minor irritants:
     • CUPS / HPLIP / Printer. Initially the printer fails with "Filter Failed". We tried reinstalling CUPS, HPLIP and various other contortions. Finally, by googling and finding
     https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=Printing&package=hplip
we installed a new repository for hplip:
     http-download.opensuse.org-9027b0d2 | Printing
This then found a new version 3.15.11-133.1

This solved the problem. Hope Google makes this helpful to someone else.

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