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

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 04 Sep 2018 at 21:20:36 +0200, Dimitri Chausson wrote:

> 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"

These are incorrect. I'd see this as a packaging error and can reproduce
it. Edit the PPD and replace "foomatic-rip-hplip" with "foomatic-rip".
Can you print now?
 
> $>   ls -l /usr/lib/cups/foomatic-rip
> ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/cups/foomatic-rip': No such file or directory

Entirely my fault.

  ls -l /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip

is what you want.

> 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'...

It comes with cups-filters - which you must have on your system.

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

Good to know.

Cheers,

Brian.