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I recently bought a Hewlett Packard Envy 5660 printer. The HPLIP support website says this printer is supported, but the HPLIP minimum version for this printer is 3.14.10. The current HPLIP on system is version 3.13.9; (confirmed by both the Software Management application and the HP Device Manager application). The curent HPLIP is up to date from the Mageia releases. The HPLIP Support website is at https://launchpad.net/hplip .

I like the printer. My wife likes the printer. My guess is that I need to upgrade my HPLIP to 3.14.10 or later.

Does anyone have advice on how to upgrade my HPLIP? Or other alternatives?

Installing Mageia 4.1 would only upgrade HPLIP to version 3.13.9.
Ditto for 5-Alpha1.

However installing Mageia Cauldron results in the following versions

• hplip-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm
• hplip-doc-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm
• hplip-gui-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm
• hplip-hpijs-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm
• hplip-hpijs-ppds-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm
• hplip-model-data-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm

Can I just install the files for hplip-model-data-3.14.6-4.mga5.i586.rpm ?
‎/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/56-hpmud.rules
‎/usr/share/hplip/data/models
‎/usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.da

Will that get me support for my new printer?

I just answered my own previous question. No.

I need a slightly higher version of HPLIP.

Can I just get the higher version of hplip-model-data from Hewlett Packard and install that to get support for my new printer?

You should be able to grab the hplip from HP and install it fairly painlessly. It's been a long time since I've had to do anything like that. There should be instructions on the hplip site, or someone around here should be able to guide you through it.

Either get complete hplip from HP and install the newest version. Or get the src.rpm from cauldron and rebuild it on your box, that is probably much less effort.
See viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5530 for that or the older thread viewtopic.php?f=24&t=8263 if you want to install hplip on your own.

IT WORKS. I got the latest source code for HPLIP, installed the needed packages from the Mageia 4 repositories, compiled the code, and installed it. The URL to start with for HPLIP is https://launchpad.net/hplip .

After downloading the source as either a tar ball, or a run file, and recovering the files, look at the manual installation instructions at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/index.html . There is a list of Linux distributions. The distro closest to Mageia is the Mandriva distro. I looked at those instructions. I had to modify the packages to install. Not all of the package names are still the same in the two distributions. I also had to change the package names to build the 64 bit versions.

cups-devel became lib64cups2-devel, and lib64cups2
dbus-devel became lib64dbus-devel
libdbus-1-devel became lib64dbus1_3. (There is no package with "dbus-1" in the package name.)
openssl-devel became lib64openssl-devel
jpeg-devel became lib64jpeg-devel
net-snmp-devel became lib64net-snmp-devel
glibc_lsb became lib64glibc_lsb
gphoto2-devel is more complicated (Mageia4 does not have a gphoto2-devel package.)
(gphoto2, lib64gphoto-devel, lib64gphoto6, and libgphoto-common are installed.)
usb1.0-devel became lib64usb1.0-devel, and lib64usb1.0_0.
policykit, and policykit-gnome became eight packages name *polkit*.
python-devel became lib64python-devel
libsane1 became lib64sane1, and lib64sane-devel.

I followed the rest of the instructions, without any compile or installation issues.
I printed a few things with no problems.

The link for manual installation and the package names were already listed in one of the forum threads linked above ...