OT: HP drivers

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 2:03 PM Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
:
> > 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
>
That's what I expected, but there were close to a hundred files of all
kinds - .o, .py, Makefiles and others, including a number of source
files. Ittook me a bit of carefulpicking, but I think I got them all.
Next time I'll be sure to use an empty directory from the start.

> 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.
>
Unfortunately, after it comes up and identifies the printer, it then
aborts with a segmentation fault. Shortly after that a "System error
has occurred" window attributing this ti setup.py and asking if I want
toreport the error or no. I always do. Looks like this (in the
terminal window - I set it to run in graphics mode one of the first
few times and it always does so now):

$ hp-setup

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.22.6)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

Here's what it does in interactive mode:

$ hp-setup -i

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.22.6)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

(Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter>
to accept the default.)


--------------------------------
| SELECT CONNECTION (I/O) TYPE |
--------------------------------

  Num       Connection  Description
            Type
  --------  ----------
----------------------------------------------------------
  0*        usb         Universal Serial Bus (USB)
  1         net         Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection
or JetDirect)

Enter number 0...1 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 0

Using connection type: usb


Setting up device: hp:/usb/OfficeJet_4650_series?serial=TH7B64F03Z0662


Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

The typo is from hp-setup - kind of funny...

Still, the scanner works better than ever since I upgraded my hardware
about a year ago and had to install Xubuntu 21.10 (20.04 and 21.05
couldn't handle the CPU and video card I put in). I'm on 22.04.1 now
and it runs quite well, especially now that the scanner is working
better.

Thanks.

Mark