I had that same problem on Mageia 8. To get the plugin installed, I had to run “hp-plugin”. I ran that as root, and it complained that I should not run it as root.
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[poobah@BSKMageia8 ~]$ su
Password:
[root@BSKMageia8 poobah]# hp-plugin
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.6)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
Copyright (c) 2001-18 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.
warning: It is not recommended to run 'hp-plugin' in a root mode.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.6)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
So I hung up on it, logged out of root, and ran it as a regular user. When I did that, it posted a GUI instead of the CLI interface.
In the dialog, select the checkbox for "Download and install the plug-in from an HP authorized server (recommended)"
It threw the usual error about the plugin keys. I said to download and install anyway.
After it downloads the plugin, it demands the root password anyway…. after warning that it should not be run as root. Go figure. I guess they are pushing the use of the GUI tool. I don’t know.
After supplying the root password, hp-plugin declares success, and the printer works.
Try running hp-plugin
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