Bug#907900: hplip: Printing is not possible b/c of missing foomatic-rip-hplip filter

[Dimitri Chausson <tri2000@gmx.net>]

Hello Brian, 

thanks for your quick reply, following are the results: 

$>   grep -i cupsfilter /etc/cups/ppd/HP_DeskJet_3630_series.ppd 
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip-hplip"
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip-hplip"

$>   ls -l /usr/lib/cups/foomatic-rip
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/cups/foomatic-rip': No such file or directory

As it seems (searching for it with apt-file), this file is part of the 'foomatic-filters' package, which is not installed on my system: this package cannot be installed as it conflicts with package 'cups-filters'...

I did not install anything else, so nothing from the upstream site, for example. 

---
Dimitri 

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 11:33:16 +0100
Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your report, Dimitri.
> 
> 
> On Mon 03 Sep 2018 at 22:26:46 +0200, Dimitri Chausson wrote:
> 
> > Package: hplip
> > Version: 3.17.10+repack0-5
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > I just bought an HP 3639 printer and wanted to use it. Configuring it via the
> > CUPS UI went fine : I use the suggested driver = HP Deskjet 3630 Series hpijs, 3.17.10 (color)
> > 
> > Unfortunately, nothing happens when I try to print, and the CUPS error log file
> > gives the following details:
> > 
> > E [03/Sep/2018:21:35:59 +0200] HP_DeskJet_3630_series: File \"/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip-hplip\" not available: No such file or directory
> > E [03/Sep/2018:21:35:59 +0200] [Job 192] Unable to start filter "foomatic-rip-hplip" - Success.
> > E [03/Sep/2018:21:35:59 +0200] [Job 192] Stopping job because the scheduler could not execute a filter.
> > 
> > Having a look on HP suport site did not really helped me, since they just
> > suggest to drop the package, download the sources and compile. 
> > 
> > I really appreciate your help and time, please don't hesitate to ask for more
> > details.
> 
> A PPD for the print queue should be in /etc/cups/ppd. Please provide the
> output of
> 
>   grep -i cupsfilter /etc/cups/<3630_PPD>
> 
> You'll need to be root to do this.
> 
> Also provide.
> 
>   ls -l /usr/lib/cups/foomatic-rip
> 
> Have you attempted to install anything from hplip outside of Debian? For
> example, a *.run file.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
>