HPLIP

  1. Bug #891080
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 891080

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wrekced (wrekced) wrote :

I have gone over the list on the page you suggested. I think I have everything. I still get a syntax error when i try to load the plugin:

$ sudo hp-plugin -i reason 1
Password:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.10)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

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: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.)

/
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| PLUG-IN INSTALLATION FOR HPLIP 3.11.10 |
 ------------------------------------------

  Option Description
  ---------- --------------------------------------------------
  d Download plug-in from HP (recomended)
  p Specify a path to the plug-in (advanced)
  q Quit hp-plugin (skip installation)

Enter option (d=download*, p=specify path, q=quit) ? d

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| DOWNLOAD CONFIGURATION |
 --------------------------

Checking for network connection...
Downloading configuration file from: http://hplip.sf.net/plugin.conf
Downloading configuration: [\ ] 0%

-------------------
| DOWNLOAD PLUGIN |
 -------------------

Checking for network connection...
Downloading plug-in from: http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.11.10-plugin.run
Downloading plug-in: [***********************************************************************************] 100% 8.0 KB Receiving digital keys: /usr/bin/gpg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xA59047B9

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| INSTALLING PLUG-IN |
 ----------------------

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.11.10 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................
  File "./plugin_install.py", line 78
    except ImportError, e:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed

Done.

I tried re-installing Python. Still the get the same problem.