Re: hp-plugin fails
On Thu 01 Aug 2019 at 16:19:16 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > when I run hp-plugin on my laptop (debian/stretch), it says
> > driver plugin for HPLIP 3.16.11 already installed ...
> > (the hplip package version is 3.16.11)
> >
> > if I do that on my desktop (debian/buster), I get:
> > error: Unable to open /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock lock file.
> > (the hplip package version is 3.18.12)
>
> Guess...
>
> > sudo hp-plugin gives:
> > warning: It is not recommended to run 'hp-plugin' in a root mode.
>
> Perhaps you succeeded running hp-plugin once as root and it created the
> lock file (/data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock) with root permission?
>
> What does "ls -l /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock" say?
> (or even better: "ls -al /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip", so we can
> see the access metadata of the directory too).
Permissions on files and directories are likely not the issue here.
A user can (and as recommended above, should) run hp-plugin. After the
plugin is downloaded and the licence agreed to the root password is
requested. The installation then takes place.
On issuing the command 'hp-plugin' hp-plugin.lock should be created in
~/.hplip. The error message above is a complaint that this file cannot
be opened because possibly it cannot be found.
--
Brian.
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