Bug#925222: hplip: hp-plugin doesn't work (hp-diagnose_plugin[4665]: error: Failed to install Plug-in)
Package: hplip
Version: 3.16.11+repack0-3
Severity: important
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The hplip/stable and hpgui/stable packages do *not* have the problem. But the hplip/testing and hpgui/testing packages do have the problem. The problem is as follows: when trying to download and install the required printer plugin (for HP m1217 printer) it does download the plugin, but fails to install it. It asks for the root password, which I supply correctly but then reports an error. As mentioned before this is only for the packages in testing, the stable packages work fine. So I have downgraded the packages to stable as a workaround (the automatically added information is for the working stable packages). The error is easily reproduced. Just run hp-plugin (or hp-setup).
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (400, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii coreutils 8.26-3
ii cups 2.2.1-8+deb9u3
ii hplip-data 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4
ii libcups2 2.2.1-8+deb9u3
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii libhpmud0 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii libsane 1.0.25-4.1
ii libsane-hpaio 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii libsnmp30 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u1
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.21-1
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
ii policykit-1 0.105-18+deb9u1
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii python3 3.5.3-1
ii python3-dbus 1.2.4-1+b1
ii python3-gi 3.22.0-2
ii python3-pexpect 4.2.1-1
ii python3-pil 4.0.0-4
ii python3-reportlab 3.3.0-2
ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u2
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.32-2
ii printer-driver-postscript-hp 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii sane-utils 1.0.25-4.1
Versions of packages hplip suggests:
pn hplip-doc <none>
ii hplip-gui 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii python3-notify2 0.3-3
pn system-config-printer <none>
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