OT: HP drivers

[Peter Flynn]

On 15/09/2022 21:10, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 11:41 AM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Of course, I had to go and clean up all the junk the install left
> behind 

HPLIP certainly used to do this a few years ago, but I've had no 
problems the last 3–4 installs over the pandemic period.

> I made the mistake of installing from my Downloads directory,

Executing the download expands the file into a directory of the same 
name (minus the filetype .run) so executing it in your Downloads 
directory (as I do) shouldn't leave anything at all in Downloads, only 
in Downloads/hplip-3.22.whatever

> Dunno if that helps. I'd still really like to know what the problem 
> with the hplip install was in case I ever need to do this again (God 
> forbid).

As Ian pointed out,

 > the HPLIP package installs quite a few commands all beginning with
 > "hp-".

One of these is hp-setup, which should install any printers and scanners 
you have.

Peter