error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed

[Antony Fanta]

Done.
root@fanta-Lenovo:~# hp-plugin

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.11)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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.

warning: It is not recommended to run 'hp-plugin' in a root mode.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.11)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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 3.17.11 |
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  Option Description
  ---------- --------------------------------------------------
  d Download plug-in from HP (recommended)
  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 PLUGIN |
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Checking for network connection...
Downloading plug-in from:
Downloading plug-in: [\ ] 0% Receiving digital keys: /usr/bin/gpg --homedir /home/fanta/.hplip/.gnupg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x4ABA2F66DBD5A95894910E0673D770CDA59047B9

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| INSTALLING PLUG-IN |
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Creating directory plugin_tmp
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.17.11 Plugin Self Extracting Archive..................................................
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./plugin_install.py", line 107, in <module>
    (UI_TOOLKIT_QT3, UI_TOOLKIT_QT4, UI_TOOLKIT_QT5), True)
NameError: name 'UI_TOOLKIT_QT5' is not defined
error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can someone at HP tell which package is needed here?

[Afshan F (afshan)]

Hi Antony,

Can you please mention on which OS you are getting gobject/dbus error?

Thanks,
Afshan

[Antony Fanta (abileinformatico)]

root@fanta-Lenovo:~# uname -a
Linux fanta-Lenovo 4.15.0-36-generic #39~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 25 08:59:23 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alex Ramos (dhoctazh)]

Nearly a year later since the OP, and still receiving this error message. Running Ubuntu Studio 16.04.5 LTS on my end.