Comment 4 for bug 181330

I've got a process working for install hplip on the EeePC. However with this process you'll loose about 300mb or so because of the need for the development environment. You can probably remove some stuff after the install if you don't plan on compiling any software otherwise. Or you can try installing only hpijs and using cups to configure the printer.

Steps to install HPLIP on EeePC.

Add xandros/debian repos:

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos

then make sure to:

sudo apt-get update

Install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libc6 make python-dev libcupsys2-dev
cupsys-bsd libusb-dev libtool libjpeg62-dev libssl-dev libsnmp9-dev
python-reportlab libsane-dev libsane

Download the regular tar ball:

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=hplip&filename=hplip-2.7.12.tar.gz&use_mirror=superb-west

Extract the files:

tar xvfz hplip-2.7.12.tar.gz

cd hplip-2.7.12.tar.gz

Run configure:

./configure --enable-network-build --disable-pp-build --build --enable-foomatic-ppd-install --disable-foomatic-xml-instd --prefix=/usr

Then make:

make

Finally make install:

sudo make install

Install should complete. I tested with a networked printer and it worked correctly.

Steps for configuring hpijs are here (under hpijs portability reference):

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/tarball_install.html

Hope this helps!

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