You're welcome. * Some background information.
Recently made an attempt to run Debian unstable on my system. Did a clean install and changed sources.list and upgraded + dist-upgraded. Resulting installation had problems with hplip so I reverted back to Debian stable (another clean install). Subsequently I configured Debian backports and did a apt-get -t stretch-backports upgrade to upgrade installed packages to their newer versions in the backports. Then I noticed that hplip was broken with the same behaviour as in the Debian unstable install. So I did a apt install hplip/stable hplip-data/stable hplip-gui/stable printer-driver-hpijs/stable printer-driver-postscript-hp/stable to revert to stable hplip and it again works fine. * Testing/Unstable Don't require the testing/unstable version for hplip. Stable works fine. But will it (still) work in the future version of Debian? (That's why I submitted the bug report). * Reproducing If hplip 3.18.12 works fine at your system I don't know how to reproduce the problem. I do have sudo installed and my account added to the sudo group to enable. But when hplip asks for a password it has 'root' already filled in for the username (grayed out so it cannot be changed) so I typed my root password in the dialog window. Thanks for the follow up. On 3/25/19 7:16 PM, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 13:34:23 +0100, Mari Donkers wrote: > >> The hplip/stable and hpgui/stable packages do *not* have the problem. >> But the hplip/testing and hpgui/testing packages do have the problem. >> The problem is as follows: when trying to download and install the >> required printer plugin (for HP m1217 printer) it does download the >> plugin, but fails to install it. It asks for the root password, which >> I supply correctly but then reports an error. As mentioned before this >> is only for the packages in testing, the stable packages work fine. So >> I have downgraded the packages to stable as a workaround (the >> automatically added information is for the working stable packages). >> The error is easily reproduced. Just run hp-plugin (or hp-setup). > Thank you for your report, Mari. > > I have used 'hp-plugin -i' a number of times in the past few months > with hplip 3.18.12 and retested it today. It downloads the plugin, > presents a licence to agree to and asks for the root password and, > on giving it, installs the plugin files. Is there anything more you > could suggest for me to do to get the behaviour you describe? > > If it is a matter of wanting the testing/unstable version, you could > see what > > https://wiki.debian.org/QuickPrintQueuesCUPS#mfd > > does for you. > > Regards, > > Brian.
