debian:/tmp# aptitude install hplips Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "hplips" The following packages have been kept back: base-files gnome-mount libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libeel2-data libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-menu2 libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-extension1 libpango1.0-0 libpq5 libruby1.8 libvte-common locales psmisc ruby1.8 shared-mime-info tilda tzdata xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. debian:/tmp# aptitude install hplip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: hpijs hplip The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: hpijs-ppds hplip-data linuxprinting.org-ppds python-imaging python-qt3 python-reportlab python-sip4 python-xml The following packages have been kept back: base-files gnome-mount libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libeel2-data libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-menu2 libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-extension1 libpango1.0-0 libpq5 libruby1.8 libvte-common locales psmisc ruby1.8 shared-mime-info tilda tzdata xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils The following NEW packages will be installed: hpijs-ppds hplip-data linuxprinting.org-ppds python-imaging python-qt3 python-reportlab python-sip4 python-xml 0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded. Need to get 29.1MB of archives. After unpacking 60.4MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: hpijs: Depends: libsnmp9 (>= 5.2.3) which is a virtual package. hplip: Depends: libsnmp9 (>= 5.2.3) which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: hpijs [Not Installed] hpijs-ppds [Not Installed] hplip [Not Installed] hplip-data [Not Installed] Score is -9974 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]