Installing hplip

In general, if you don't really need the latest version of a package, prefer installing the one offered at the official repository. It's much more likely you won't have problems afterwards. Note: Remove all kinds of the previous installation first. See this answer. After my old printer from another brand refused to print after about 15 years I tried to install an HP Mn today. I thought that HP drivers were among the best in class, starting with my old The easy route for my case would have been to use Ubuntu So in doubt try that first before you loose a lot of time.

There is a snap which apparently was a summer mentoring project but never left experimental stage, yet it shows up in search results in the software center when searching for HPLIP which many people seem to do instead of opening a terminal, it's Ubuntu after all. Snap version 0. The description only slightly hints that it is non-functional software. Since my model is a multi-function printer with a scanner I need to install HPLIP plugins, the easiest way to do that seems to be hp-plugin as Felipe and others wrote.

You can also download it from the HP site, but that is to messy for my taste. Finally, if you absolutely have to download the latest version from the HP site, be sure to check that it is the latest version you are downloading. Let's use that and don't write instructions with hard coded version numbers you have to keep track of. As I said, my setup works for now and I have to make I jump from lightly dumb mfp printers to new network printers.

Edit: Trying to install the plugin got me into more trouble on It seems like HP has removed the plugin with the matching version in Ubuntu in favor of a minor version bump… and nobody gave it a second thought.

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Follow the terminal output and answer some questions. If everything goes OK, plug or re-plug your HP devices and enjoy! Took them long enough. Requires python-pyqt5 even though python3-pyqt5 is installed. It took long enough, but I got it at least. Try Ubuntu After running the. Just navigate to the folder and run the uninstall script:. So far, nothing has worked. Ignoring the dependencies also results in failure.

Hi Ji I have a problem wile installing hplip. The installation starts but it hangs by:. Do you have maybe a solution for this problem?

Different Linux versions use different install procedures if the incorrect version is selected, the installer may fail. Please follow any directions given. The installer will now detect what dependencies your system will need to install before installing HPLIP. In addition any package manager clean up steps will be ran. These are executed to try and minimize any potential package manager problems.

But there is more The DBus support module is installed as dbus. This module provides support for the Qt event loop in the same way that the dbus. It is only available if the dbus-python v0. To use it, follow the directions at our Manual Installation Instructions page.

If your python version is 2. Now that i know what the "backend" is i've tried fiddling with that too, but to no avail. Perhaps this ARM architecture just can not handle this process.