Ubuntu
hplip package

hp-toolbox fails to start (missing dep)

Bug #93295 reported by Trouilliez vincent on 2007-03-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #86893: [Feisty] Starting HPLIP Toolbox in DVD edition or after update through internet: No python-qt3, but plenty of space on DVD or internet repository. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hplip (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: hplip

I noticed the "HPLIP Toolbox" icon under System->Administration. Seeing as I have an HP Laser printer, I clicke don the icon out of curiosity... but nothing happened.

I went in the menu editor to see what command was invoked. It was "hp-toolbox".

So I tried to start it from the command line, and it displayed this error message :

$ hp-toolbox
error: PyQt not installed. GUI not available. Exiting.
error: PyQt/Qt initialization error. Please check install of PyQt/Qt and try again.

I did a quick search in Synaptic to see what I could find, and I installed the package "python-qt3" (it's in Main)
That fixed the problem, the HP printer tool now fires up as it should.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 18 06:31:38 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux Lotus-Esprit 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Revision history for this message

Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2007-03-18:

Thanks for your bug report.
This bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system.
Closing as a duplicate of bug #86893, please add further comments in that bug report.
Feel free to report any other bugs you find.