Bug#925222: hplip: hp-plugin doesn't work (hp-diagnose_plugin[4665]: error: Failed to install Plug-in)
On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 13:34:23 +0100, Mari Donkers wrote:
> The hplip/stable and hpgui/stable packages do *not* have the problem.
> But the hplip/testing and hpgui/testing packages do have the problem.
> The problem is as follows: when trying to download and install the
> required printer plugin (for HP m1217 printer) it does download the
> plugin, but fails to install it. It asks for the root password, which
> I supply correctly but then reports an error. As mentioned before this
> is only for the packages in testing, the stable packages work fine. So
> I have downgraded the packages to stable as a workaround (the
> automatically added information is for the working stable packages).
> The error is easily reproduced. Just run hp-plugin (or hp-setup).
Thank you for your report, Mari.
I have used 'hp-plugin -i' a number of times in the past few months
with hplip 3.18.12 and retested it today. It downloads the plugin,
presents a licence to agree to and asks for the root password and,
on giving it, installs the plugin files. Is there anything more you
could suggest for me to do to get the behaviour you describe?
If it is a matter of wanting the testing/unstable version, you could
see what
https://wiki.debian.org/QuickPrintQueuesCUPS#mfd
does for you.
Regards,
Brian.
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