On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Brian wrote:So - you had the plugin installed already!yes, but as I already said, on my desktop, it gives: error: Unable to open /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock lock file. and on my laptop, it opens a window saying: the driver plugin for HPLIP 3.16.11 appears to already be installed. do you want to download and reinstall the plug-in? which is more user friendly.
now, hp-plugin works (god knows why), and it installs the bb_ files
in /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins, but if I call it again,
it still proposes to install, instead of saying
the driver plugin for HPLIP 3.16.11 appears to already be installed.
as on my laptop
an other computing mystery...
best regards,
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Pierre Frenkiel