Solved: Re: HPLIP auto install: does it work? - HP Support Community

BorisT · ‎02-22-2014

I just bought an HP printer. Then I was installing HPLIP during 2.5 days; more than expected. (Needless to say I was cursing HP the last day). Now I am happy to succeed, but I also feel that it was a good luck. I think this story should be shared.

I am a Linux user since 1998, of rather low geekness. Almost always I use precompiled binaries. Thus I hoped to use auto install (and ultimately did). Last years I use Debian.

It seems I understand now the origin of the problem. People of hplipopensource.com take the current release of Debian (among other distros), and adapt auto-installer to this release. After that, Debian people include this new version of auto-installer to the next release of Debian. And so on. As a result, the auto-installer never works! It always complains that this release is not supported yet.

I installed Debian 7.1 from my (somewhat old) DVDs. I instructed the installer not to use any network mirror. Do not laugh, this is essential. (When I did otherwise, I got Debian 7.4 instead of 7.1 - not supported yet...) According to this Debian release, the Installation Wizard gave me auto-installer 'hplip-3.14.1.run'. Running it I got a message: "Disable the CD sources in your apt sources list". Frankly, I use Synaptic rather than apt. Well, I've found this /etc/apt/sources.list and commented out all CD sources. Running hplip again I saw that it fails to install even gcc. Well, no wonder: no network mirror. I added a network mirror. The rest was rather easy.

So, I got the impression that a not-so-geeky Linux user, like me, have some positive, but rather small probability to pass through all timing conditions before selling his/her new HP printer. Indeed, if Linux is quite new, it is not yet supported. If it is a bit older than needed, a new hplip fails for this reason, while an old hplip does not support the brand new printer (I guess so; I did not try). And most importantly: the hplip site tells me that

Debian 7.1 supplies HPLIP 3.12.6 and it does support your printer.
As the version of HPLIP supplied with your operating system supports your printer, you may continue to use that version of HPLIP.

That is true; but it forgets to add that my distro contains an outdated version; it just does not work. What a catch!

Or maybe I am naive somehow? Others seem to feel better. What do I miss?

BorisT · ‎02-27-2014

Wow, it does work, the HPLIP auto install!
See my session below.

The following five points appeared to be critical for me.

1. The hplip site says:
"Debian 7.1 supplies HPLIP 3.12.6 and it does support your printer. As the version of HPLIP supplied with your operating system supports your printer, you may continue to use that version of HPLIP". No, do not believe. Download the last version (in my case, hplip-3.14.1.run), later called "XXX.run".

2. Ensure that your repositories contain no CD/DVD (the auto-installer will warn you), and do contain "main" and "contrib" (the auto-installer will not warn you); "non-free" is not needed. I did it via Synaptic Package manager (Settings->Repositories).

3. Run the XXX.run file by a command line "sh XXX.run" issued in the terminal window under GUI (not the console). Do not be root, and do not use "sudo". Rather, you need to know the root password.

4. You'll get an error message like this: "error: debian-7.4 version is not supported, so all dependencies may not be installed. However trying to install using debian-7.2 version packages".
Do not bother too much; in my case this was harmless. Answer "y".

5. The final error message "RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK set_interactive(1)" is also harmless.

After the message
"PRINTER SETUP. Please make sure your printer is connected and powered on at this time"
you should get a graphical panel
"HP Device Manager - Setup. Device discovery".
Do the needed choice (in my case, USB), click "Next". You should get another graphical panel
"HP Device Manager - Plug-in Installer. Driver Plug-in Installation".
Choose "Download", click "Next" and be patient; in my case it took 5 minutes, with no visible progress. Next graphical panel:
"Driver Plug-in License agreement". Browse it to the end, click "Agree"; observe message "Plug-in installation successful", click "OK".
The last graphical panel: "HP Device Manager - Setup. Setup Device". Mark "Send test page", click "add printer" and hope for the best.

boris@debian:~$ sh hplip-3.14.1.run
Creating directory hplip-3.14.1
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.14.1 Self Extracting Archive...................................................................................................

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1)
HPLIP Installer ver. 5.1

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard 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.

Installer log saved in: hplip-install_Thu-27-Feb-2014_19:04:37.log

\
note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.
error: debian-7.4 version is not supported, so all dependencies may not be installed. However trying to install using debian-7.2 version packages.

Press 'y' to continue auto installation. Press 'n' to quit auto instalation(y=yes, n=no*): y

INSTALLATION MODE
-----------------
Automatic mode will install the full HPLIP solution with the most common options.
Custom mode allows you to choose installation options to fit specific requirements.

Please choose the installation mode (a=automatic*, c=custom, q=quit) :

Initializing. Please wait...

INTRODUCTION
------------
This installer will install HPLIP version 3.14.1 on your computer.
Please close any running package management systems now (YaST, Adept, Synaptic, Up2date, etc).

DISTRO/OS CONFIRMATION
----------------------
Distro appears to be Debian 7.4.

Is "Debian 7.4" your correct distro/OS and version (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ?

ENTER ROOT/SUPERUSER PASSWORD
-----------------------------
Please enter the root/superuser password:

INSTALLATION NOTES
------------------
NOTE: Disable the CD Sources in your apt sources.list or the install will fail and hang.

Please read the installation notes. Press <enter> to continue or 'q' to quit:

RUNNING PRE-INSTALL COMMANDS
----------------------------
OK

INSTALL MISSING REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
-------------------------------------
warning: There are 9 missing REQUIRED dependencies.
note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection.
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: gcc (gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libpthread (libpthread - POSIX threads library)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: make (make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: python-devel (Python devel - Python development files)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: cups-devel (CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libusb (libusb - USB library)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libtool (libtool - Library building support services)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: cups-image (CUPS image - CUPS image development files)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libjpeg (libjpeg - JPEG library)

INSTALL MISSING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES
-------------------------------------
warning: There are 8 missing OPTIONAL dependencies.
note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection.
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency for option 'network': libcrypto (libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency for option 'network': libnetsnmp-devel (libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files)
warning: Missing OPTIONAL dependency for option 'network': avahi-utils (avahi-utils)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency for option 'gui_qt4': pyqt4-dbus (PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency for option 'gui_qt4': pyqt4 (PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x))
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency for option 'fax': dbus (DBus - Message bus system)
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency for option 'scan': sane-devel (SANE - Scanning library development files)
warning: Missing OPTIONAL dependency for option 'scan': xsane (xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE)

CHECKING FOR NETWORK CONNECTION
-------------------------------
Network connection present.

RUNNING PRE-PACKAGE COMMANDS
----------------------------
su -c "dpkg --configure -a" (Pre-depend step 1)
su -c "apt-get install -f" (Pre-depend step 2)
su -c "apt-get update" (Pre-depend step 3)
warning: An error occurred running 'su -c "apt-get install --yes cupsys-bsd"'
su -c "apt-get install --yes cupsys-bsd" (Pre-depend step 4)
OK

DEPENDENCY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
----------------------------------
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y g++"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libc6"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y make"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y python-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libcups2-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y cups-bsd"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y cups-client"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libusb-1.0.0-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libtool"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libcupsimage2"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libcupsimage2-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libjpeg8-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libssl-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libsnmp-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y avahi-utils"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y python-qt4-dbus"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y python-qt4"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libdbus-1-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y libsane-dev"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'su -c "apt-get install --force-yes -y xsane"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
HPLIP-3.12.6 exists, this may conflict with the new one being installed.
Do you want to ('i'= Remove and Install*, 'o'= Overwrite, 'q'= Quit)? :
Starting uninstallation...
HPLIP uninstallation is completed

RUNNING POST-PACKAGE COMMANDS
-----------------------------
OK

RE-CHECKING DEPENDENCIES
------------------------

PRE-BUILD COMMANDS
------------------
OK

BUILD AND INSTALL
-----------------
Running './configure --with-hpppddir=/usr/share/ppd/HP --prefix=/usr --enable-qt4 --disable-libusb01_build --enable-doc-build --disable-cups-ppd-install --disable-foomatic-drv-install --disable-foomatic-ppd-install --disable-hpijs-install --disable-udev_sysfs_rules --disable-policykit --enable-cups-drv-install --enable-hpcups-install --enable-network-build --enable-dbus-build --enable-scan-build --enable-fax-build'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Command completed successfully.

Running 'make clean'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Command completed successfully.

Running 'make'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Command completed successfully.

Running 'su -c "make install"'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Command completed successfully.

Build complete.

POST-BUILD COMMANDS
-------------------

CLOSE HP_SYSTRAY
----------------
Sending close message to hp-systray (if it is currently running)...

HPLIP UPDATE NOTIFICATION
-------------------------
Do you want to check for HPLIP updates?. (y=yes*, n=no) :

RESTART OR RE-PLUG IS REQUIRED
------------------------------
If you are installing a USB connected printer, and the printer was plugged in
when you started this installer, you will need to either restart your PC or
unplug and re-plug in your printer (USB cable only). If you choose to restart,
run this command after restarting: hp-setup (Note: If you are using a parallel
connection, you will have to restart your PC. If you are using network/wireless,
you can ignore and continue).

Restart or re-plug in your printer (r=restart, p=re-plug in*, i=ignore/continue, q=quit) :
Please unplug and re-plugin your printer now. Press <enter> to continue or 'q' to quit:

PRINTER SETUP
-------------
Please make sure your printer is connected and powered on at this time.

RE-STARTING HP_SYSTRAY
----------------------

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard 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.

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:127: RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK
set_interactive(1)
boris@debian:~$

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BorisT · ‎02-27-2014