Comment 9 for bug 1744340

Additional info, this is the text when I reinstall the hplip package
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  g++-6 libaccinj64-9.1 libcublas9.1 libcudart9.1 libcufft9.1 libcufftw9.1 libcuinj64-9.1 libcurand9.1 libcusolver9.1 libcusparse9.1 libnppc9.1 libnppial9.1
  libnppicc9.1 libnppicom9.1 libnppidei9.1 libnppif9.1 libnppig9.1 libnppim9.1 libnppist9.1 libnppisu9.1 libnppitc9.1 libnpps9.1 libnvblas9.1 libnvgraph9.1
  libnvidia-cfg1-418 libnvrtc9.1 libnvtoolsext1 libnvvm3 libstdc++-6-dev libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-cuda-doc nvidia-cuda-gdb nvidia-opencl-dev nvidia-profiler
  nvidia-visual-profiler ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-c-headers
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  hplip-data printer-driver-postscript-hp
Suggested packages:
  hplip-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hplip hplip-data hplip-gui printer-driver-postscript-hp
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/8,289 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Selecting previously unselected package hplip-data.
(Reading database ... 195270 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hplip-data_3.17.10+repack0-5_all.deb ...
Unpacking hplip-data (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package hplip.
Preparing to unpack .../hplip_3.17.10+repack0-5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking hplip (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package hplip-gui.
Preparing to unpack .../hplip-gui_3.17.10+repack0-5_all.deb ...
Unpacking hplip-gui (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package printer-driver-postscript-hp.
Preparing to unpack .../printer-driver-postscript-hp_3.17.10+repack0-5_all.deb ...
Unpacking printer-driver-postscript-hp (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Setting up hplip-data (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Setting up hplip (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Creating/updating hplip user account...
dpkg-statoverride: warning: --update given but /var/run/hplip does not exist
Can't open /etc/hp/hplip.conf: No such file or directory.
Can't open /etc/hp/hplip.conf: No such file or directory.
Setting up printer-driver-postscript-hp (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Setting up hplip-gui (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for cups (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.7) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
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This is might be the error:
Can't open /etc/hp/hplip.conf: No such file or directory.
Can't open /etc/hp/hplip.conf: No such file or directory.

Also everytime I ran hp-setup or hp-check (etc) it tells that the version is 0.0.0
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HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.0.0)
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