Comment 8 for bug 1486731

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FreeMinded (pascal-planetmages) wrote :

I can confirm for Kubuntu 15.10 beta2 that I am the only user and privileged to run sudo. The problem still appears.
running sudo hp-plugin -i -g
gets the following

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.15.7)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 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.

error: hp-plugin should not be run as root/superuser

without sudo is the output is exactly the same as in post #6 except for the hplip version.

It worked for me with Kubuntu 14.10...