Comment 6 for bug 1422004

Denys, the info at the link you provide seems to relate more to running the gui hp-setup; or am I missing something?

This bug affects me as "something" - cups? I dunno - is running hp-setup automagically and behind the scenes.

I have tried running hp-setup -i from the command line. When I use it to attempt to install my laserjet P1102w, I get as far as starting the download for the plugin, and then this happens:

    Creating directory plugin_tmp
    Verifying archive integrity... All good.
    Uncompressing HPLIP 3.15.2 Plugin Self Extracting Archive...............................
    Error importing HPLIP modules. Is HPLIP installed?
    error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed

Done.

The same thing appears to happen when I try to install my other laserjet, an M1212nf_MFP.

I have looked for the string error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed on Google. It seems that this may arise when Python 3 is the default, but running python -V from the command line tells me that the default on my system is 2.7.9.

This link https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600360 suggests that I may be missing package python-gobject.

Looking in Synaptic, I see I have both python-gobject and python-gobject2 installed.

Is it possible that somehow the new Python3 gobject is interfering with hp-setup? I don't feel great about the idea of removing python-gobject to find out...

Willing to experiment here if anyone has any ideas... and as Shahar Or mentions, there is no printing happening here at this time...