I've just installed version 2.8.2 and this bug is still there. By
specifying standard C locale I can work around this bug, as earlier
suggested.
This bug is also reported in #467117 and it seems that the same problem
is causing bug #458291. I quote the workaround below.
Cheers,
Slaven
From: Lupe Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hplip: hp-setup fails to find PPD file
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:14:28 +0100
Package: hplip
Version: 2.7.10-5
Severity: important
Error message frpm hp-setup:
error: PPD not file found.An appropriate PPD file could not be found.
Please check your HPLIP install, use <i>Select Other...</i>, or download
one from linuxprinting.org.
(...)
Same problems here, indeed related to locale management, with error
messages like this:
'error: Invalid locale: fr_BE.utf8'
If you're looking for a simple workaround to make hp-setup work (and
other hplip binaries too), just run the commands in any console, but
specifying the standard C locale, like this:
yourbox:~# LANG=C.iso8859.1 hp-setup
then other tools will work in the same way, eg
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