hplip. Is it there? Need help deciphering terminal.

Brigadier · 03-18-2021, 03:59 AM

I have two laptops.

Laptop (1) has Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 3.2.7
Laptop (2) has Mint 20.1 Cinnamon 4.8.6

On both via terminal I entered dpkg -l hplip to see if hplip was installed. This what I got but it means nothing to me. The 'tutorial' I was following didn't explain further. So is it installed or not, and if so is it up to date?

Laptop (1)

simon@simon-W25CSW ~ $ dpkg -l hplip
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii hplip 3.16.3+repac amd64 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Sys
simon@simon-W25CSW ~ $

Laptop (2)

user@user-NL40-50CU:~$ dpkg -l hplip
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-=========================-============-=====================>
ii hplip 3.20.11+dfsg0-1+lmtrfocal amd64 HP Linux Printing and>
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pan64 · 03-18-2021, 05:44 AM

It is explained (for example here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1880...e-ii-rc-mean):

Code:

ii             means installed
hplip          package name
3.20....       version