{"id":844,"date":"2015-07-24T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2015-07-24T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:42:30","slug":"844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 22 missing printer found after &#8220;dnf update&#8221; July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2015.07.24 &#8212; Fedora 22 printer problem solved&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 Soon after I installed Fedora 22, I was unable to print on my 2015 purchased HP OJ-P 8620 which is USB connected directly to Thor, my main desktop Fedora Linux workstation.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a major gotcha.<\/p>\n<p>Since last installing Fedora 22 this printer hardware had not worked.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, I tried the Fedora superuser command &#8220;<strong>dnf update<\/strong>&#8221; to see if any changes had been broadcast.\u00a0\u00a0 After maybe 10-15 minutes of downloading then\u00a0 doing the updates,\u00a0 I did a power cycle of Thor and what do you know,\u00a0 now I had printer function back!<\/p>\n<p>When using software at the bleeding edge [AKA Fedora nn] it pays to update frequently!\u00a0 I imagine that when I next go into the &#8220;System Settings&#8221; of cinnamon on Thor,\u00a0 I will find the missing printer is actually there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015.07.24 &#8212; Fedora 22 printer problem solved&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 Soon after I installed Fedora 22, I was unable to print on my 2015 purchased HP OJ-P 8620 which is USB connected directly to Thor, my main desktop Fedora Linux workstation.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a major gotcha. Since last installing Fedora 22 this printer hardware had not worked.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ongoing-linux-voyages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.helmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}