HPLIB error

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> on Sun, 8 Nov
2020 20:26:36 +0000

> Hi Bob,
> 
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 18:31, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> 
> > I just updated from 20.04 to 20.10.  Now I am getting a pop-up (title bar =
> > HPLIP Status Service) message that says:
> >
> > No system tray detected on this system.
> > Unable to start, exiting.
> >
> > What and where is the system tray?
> >
> 
> On Ubuntu, at least, I believe it is the set of icons at the top right hand
> corner of the screen.
> 
> I believe HPLIP relies on Python 3 as well as some packages with names
> beginning with hplip (on my 20.04 system, hplip-data ,hplip-doc
> ,hplip-gui). Are they installed?


robert at MARS:~$ apt list hplip*
Listing... Done
hplip-data/groovy,groovy,now 3.20.5+dfsg0-3build1 all [installed]
hplip-doc/groovy,groovy 3.20.5+dfsg0-3build1 all
hplip-gui/groovy,groovy,now 3.20.5+dfsg0-3build1 all [installed]
hplip/groovy,now 3.20.5+dfsg0-3build1 amd64 [installed]
robert at MARS:~$ 

Looks to me like HPLIP was updated to 20.10.
Python 3 is installed and has been updated.

-- 
Robert Blair


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