Unable to "Install the required plugin"

[manolo]

I am unable to "Install the required plugin" for the HP Color LaserJet 2600n.
Several bug reports have been created on this issue but at the moment nobody seems to have solved the problem.

Any suggestion, please?
Thanks.

[Srikanth (srikanth-lokare)]

Hi

Can you please "hp-check -t" from the terminal and post the complete output here.

Thank and Regards,
Srikanth Lokare

[manolo (mac-man2005)]

hp-check -t

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.1)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.3

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.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the
HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies
are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro
supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball
has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode
will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Saving output in log file: hp-check.log

Initializing. Please wait...

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

Basic system information:
Linux mano-laptop 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 18:42:20 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
ubuntu 10.10

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.6.6 installed

Checking PyQt 4.x version...
OK, version 4.7.4 installed.

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
warning: Version: (cups-config) Not available. Unable to determine installed version of CUPS.)
error_log is set to level: warn

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.83.0

------------------------------------
| COMPILE AND RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
------------------------------------

note: To check for compile-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -c parameter (ie, hp-check -c).
note: To check for run-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -r parameter (ie, hp-check -r).

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.
To install this dependency, execute this command:
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes cups

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
To install this dependency, execute this command:
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libcups2-dev cups-bsd cups-client

Checking for dependency: CUPS image - CUPS image development files...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
To install this dependency, execute this command:
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libcupsimage2-dev

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed be...

[Srikanth (srikanth-lokare)]

Hi,

This is a bug similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/642444.

As a work around can you try the following steps.

1) Go to super user mod and then add printer using hp-setup
   i.e => sudo su
       => hp-setup

2) Manually download plugin file (hplip-3.11.1-plugin.run) from http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/
and the run in terminal as:
              => sh hplip-3.11.1-plugin.run

Thanks and Regards,
Srikanth Lokare