hp-plugin does not run auto-extracting plugin when started out of other programs

[Till Kamppeter]

I call hp-plugin out of system-config-printer to allow easy fully automatic setup of all printers with the stamdard printer setup tool in Ubuntu (Karmic in my case). hp-plugin starts and downloads the plugin, but it does not succeed to run the plugin. So one sees the first screen of hp-plugin and without the license of the plugin being shown the pop-up "Plugin successfully installed" appears. After clicking OK, hp-plugin closes and no plugin is installed.

I have looked into the mechanism of the self-extracting archives and seen that there are some command line options to start them. I have tried out --nox11 and with that one the plugin gets correctly started when hp-plugin is started out of system-config-printer.

For you to reproduce: Try

gksu -- hp-plugin

(note that with the current version this is not needed any more but this is only for demonstration).

So I have patched hp-plugin to use "--nox11". The patch is attached. Please consider it for 3.9.8.

[dwelch91 (dwelch91)]

Patch applied for HPLIP 3.9.8.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden>wrote:

>
> ** Attachment added: "Patch to make plugin getting correctly started also
> if hp-plugin is called from another program"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29621181/plugin-execution-fix.patch
>
> --
> hp-plugin does not run auto-extracting plugin when started out of other
> programs
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405864
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of HP Linux
> Imaging and Printing, which is subscribed to HPLIP.
>

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Thanks, Don.

[[e-mail] (angela-kosolofski)]

hello,

I am trying to apply this patch and I am a complete newbie to all this, I am wondering if you could give ,me some step by step directions on how to use it. thank you:)