hp-toolbox does not work "out of the box"
Bug #489476 reported by
Paul Gear
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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HPLIP |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
hplip (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It reports an error message on startup:
$ hp-toolbox
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0
Copyright (c) 2001-9 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.
warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-toolbox requires GUI support. Exiting.
$
Installing python-qt4-dbus enabled it to run. Please add this as a dependency.
affects: | ubuntu → hplip (Ubuntu) |
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hp-check reports this:
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error: 22 errors and/or warnings.
Summary of needed commands to run to satisfy missing dependencies: ------- ------- ------- -
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes libsnmp-dev
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes python-qt4
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes python-qt4-dbus
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes python-reportlab
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes libsane-dev
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In my opinion, these should be added to the dependency list.