The printer needs a plugin to work, so I have to install it using hp-setup to get the plugin downloaded and installed. I have run hp-setup as both root and user, and it fails in all cases with an error saying that it needs the plugin and that I should run hp-plugin as a regular user. So I did that. That program failed as well.
Here is the output from the terminal when I ran hp-setup as a normal user.
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[poobah@localhost ~]$ hp-setup
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0
Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Searching... (bus=net, timeout=5, ttl=4, search=(None) desc=0, method=slp)
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Checking for network connection...
Downloading plug-in from:
Receiving digital keys: /usr/bin/gpg --homedir /home/poobah/.hplip/.gnupg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x4ABA2F66DBD5A95894910E0673D770CDA59047B9
Creating directory plugin_tmp
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.18.12 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................................
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Installer ver. 3.0
Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Plug-in version: 3.18.12
Installed HPLIP version: 3.18.12
Number of files to install: 55
note: Using PyQt5
Done.
Plug-in installation successful
Done.
error: The device you are trying to setup requires a binary plug-in. Some functionalities may not work as expected without plug-ins. Please run 'hp-plugin' as normal user to install plug-ins. Visit http://hplipopensource.com for more infomation.
Done.
[poobah@localhost ~]$
The GUI from hp-plugin shows that the plugin was installed successfully.
Then, the program asks me to sign in as root to finish.
Then, it fails, telling me to run the program that I just ran.
Anybody know what is going on here?
Anybody know what the name of the plugin is so I can look for it? The hp-plugin tool does not give the name of the file or where it was stored, other than "plugin_tmp".
Anybody know where the installed plugin is supposed to go so that I can look into it?
Thanks
Banjo
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