18.04 has no support for my printer

[Brian]

On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:57:55 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 18:49, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > We already know. They are in another post in this thread.
> 
> Ah, good catch. Sorry, I had missed that.
> 
> OK, they look correct.

They *are* correct. That is, they are what upstream intends them to be
and what Debian and Ubuntu fits in with.

> So, the alternative issue is that Charles' user is not in the correct
> group as apparently the group permissions aren't enough.
> 
> Charles -- what is your login name on this machine?
> 
> For instance, if it's "charles" then try this:
> 
> sudo usermod -a -G lp charles
> 
> Then reboot and try again.

Log off and log in again, surely?
> 
> Solution from here:
> 
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/485232

User charles now has permission to read the files I send to the printing
system. /etc/cups/cups-files has the option ConfigFilePerm for this
situation. I wouldn't alter it for security reasons, but it is there.

In any case, what Charles Irons got was a warning. It can be ignored. I
doubt it has anything to do with his inability to install version 3.18.9
of HPLIP (which shouldn't be needed, anyway).

-- 
Brian.