Bug#515720: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#515720: hp-setup -i dies when picking PPD

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Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org> wrote:
>> Actually, I did
>> # LANG= hp-setup -i
>>
>> (I don't have the python-qt4 packages installed, so couldn't run GUI mode
>> if I wanted to.)
>>
>> And it indeed did not blow up, although test page printing failed.
>
> Excellent.  At least we are getting somewhere now.
>
> Have a look at the bug I referenced.
>
> There is an issue as CUPS returns details according to locale setting (LANG)
> but hplip only understands LANG=en responses.  It has been forwarded upstream,
> but they haven't done much about it :-(

Thanks.  What's odd is that I had LANG unset, which usually defaults to en,
especially for a California company like HP.  But set to the empty
string seems to make a difference.  Odd.

(Oops... I spoke too soon.  It worked when I just tried it again.
Maybe I had LANG set to something odd last time.)