[SOLVED] network printer issue and hplip 3.10.6

[r0cket]

yes, it compiles without any errors.
Although I did not use the arguments provided in your article for the configure command. I just did ./configure and prepared the Makefile and other artifacts successfully.

Then make install also worked and all my binaries are available., where they should be.

A bunch of hp-* scripts are populated in /usr/local/bin by the build of hplip.

When I ran hp-check, it appears to be checking how things are installed, it reports several issues. Does your hp-check report similar issues? I'm wondering how do I get around these issues?

Checking PyQt 4.x version...
error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD!

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.


Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
error: Could not access file: No such file or directory

Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD! Please reinstall HPLIP and check for the proper installation of hpmudext.

Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD! Please reinstall HPLIP and check for the proper installation of scanext.

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| SUMMARY |
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error: 8 errors and/or warnings.

[scottro]

In that case, all I can suggest is that you recompile it with the options I gave--they are from the instructions on the hplip pages (that seem to have disappeared) with a few changes handling some package name changes.

I do remember that the gui wouldn't work because of pyqt4 either not being available or being too old in CentOS.

[r0cket]

alright, I did that.

However it is no longer an issue of how I configure hplip or do the build of hplip anymore.

The Gnome UI for printer created device url for my printer as ipp://192.168.1.8

when I used hp-setup -i 192.168.1.8, then it probed the printer and found the default name, found the .ppd and asked a few questions and created a fax and prnter url as
hp:/net/Officejet_6500_E709n?ip=192.168.1.8

I think the device url generated by Gnome printer setup was incorrect. When I went and manually edited that ipp://192.168.1.8 URL to hp generated URL, the test page did print.

So yes, it worked. Excellent article and very good help. Appreciate it very much. So the method described in your article works for CentOS5.5 and hplip-3.10.9 as well.
thanks

[pschaff]

Thanks for reporting back. Should we mark this thread [SOLVED] for posterity?

[r0cket]

Yes, we can mark it SOLVED. Thanks again for a great forum.

[AlanBartlett]

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Yes, we can mark it SOLVED. Thanks again for a great forum.
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Done, as requested. You're welcome.

And thanks to [b]Scott[/b] for maintaining a comprehensive series of documents. :-)