Comment 0 for bug 1992187

after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04.1 (not a new installation): new installation of hplip
>sudo apt install hplip hplip-gui

Install completes without error.

Using hplip, e.g.
>hp-setup

manual detection of wireless printer using IP works, printer is listed, but on 'next' -> process hangs (wait/termination suggested, wait does not help)

alternative: (hplip installs a suite of programs)
>hp-check (verifies installation and contact to printer, scanner
produces normal output ending prematurely with error message:

  Saving output in log file: /home/glassel/hp-check.log

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.22.2)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1

Copyright (c) 2001-18 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: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or
.run) to determine if the proper dependencies are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an
already built HPLIP supplied tarball has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases (both
compile- and run-time dependencies).

Check types:
a. EXTERNALDEP - External Dependencies
b. GENERALDEP - General Dependencies (required both at compile and run time)
c. COMPILEDEP - Compile time Dependencies
d. [All are run-time checks]
PYEXT SCANCONF QUEUES PERMISSION

Status Types:
    OK
    MISSING - Missing Dependency or Permission or Plug-in
    INCOMPAT - Incompatible dependency-version or Plugin-version

-Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-check", line 861, in <module>
    dep.core.init()
  File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py", line 523, in init
    self.get_distro()
  File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py", line 661, in get_distro
    if 'MX' in distro_release_name:
NameError: name 'distro_release_name' is not defined

further info:
>apt-cache policy hplip
hplip:
  Installed: 3.22.2+dfsg0-1+klbkjammy
  Candidate: 3.22.2+dfsg0-1+klbkjammy
  Version table:
 *** 3.22.2+dfsg0-1+klbkjammy 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kelebek333/hplip/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.21.12+dfsg0-1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages

> apt-cache policy hplip-gui
hplip-gui:
  Installed: 3.22.2+dfsg0-1+klbkjammy
  Candidate: 3.22.2+dfsg0-1+klbkjammy
  Version table:
 *** 3.22.2+dfsg0-1+klbkjammy 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kelebek333/hplip/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kelebek333/hplip/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.21.12+dfsg0-1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages

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I tried alternate ways to install hplip:
hplip-3.22.6.run downloaded from hp

this fails with an unmet dependency 'libcups2', but sudo apt install libcups2 tells me it is
installed (-dev version, too)

    Best regards ... Peter Glassel