Additional info, this is the text when I reinstall the hplip package ------------------------------------------------- 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) ... ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.0.0) --------------------------------