I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and a printer HP Color Laserjet pro mfp m281fdw. Printing works, but scanning does not.
In order to fix the missing scanning function I thought I would update my HPLIP and install the latest hplip-3.20.9.run.
I used the file from https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing and followed the instructions for an automated installation.
Unfortunately, the installation doesn't finish. It doesn't go any further for several hours than...
".....
SECURITY PACKAGES
-----------------
AppArmor is installed.
AppArmor protects the application from external intrusion attempts making the application secure
Would you like to have this installer install the hplip specific policy/profile (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ? y
RUNNING PRE-INSTALL COMMANDS
OK
RUNNING HPLIP LIBS REMOVE COMMANDS
sudo apt-get remove libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio
...."
just rotating and rotatating. No error message. ...
UPDATE I stopped the not ending installation process. And did
hp-check -r
dpkg -l | egrep HP
So I found out that I have indeed fractions of different hplip versions ...
And I did
sudo apt purge hplip hplip-data
to get rid of hplip before reinstalling a new version. (I hope this was OK.) This command results in the following:
sudo apt purge hplip hplip-data
[sudo] Password for burkhard:
Reading package list ... Done
Building dependency tree.
Reading status information.... Done
The following packages were installed automatically and are no longer needed:
libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:i386
libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libelf1:i386 libfwup1 libglvnd0:i386
libllvm9 libpciaccess0:i386 libsane-hpaio libsensors4:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386
libxcb-dri2-0:i386 libxcb-dri3-0:i386 libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb-present0:i386
libxcb-sync1:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxshmfence1:i386
linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-42 linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-45
linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-47 linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-48
linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-51 python3-pexpect python3-ptyprocess
python3-renderpm python3-reportlab python3-reportlab-accel
tuxedo-keyboard-dkms
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be removed:
hplip* hplip-data* printer-driver-postscript-hp*
0 updated, 0 newly installed, 3 to be removed and 7 not updated.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation 12.9 MB of disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 408916 files and directories are currently installed)
Removing printer-driver-postscript-hp (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Removing hplip (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
Removing von hplip-data (3.17.10+repack0-5) ...
dpkg: Warnung: Während Entfernens von hplip-data ist Verzeichnis »/usr/share/hplip/data/images/other« nicht leer, wird daher nicht gelöscht
dpkg: Warnung: Während Entfernens von hplip-data ist Verzeichnis »/usr/share/hplip/base« nicht leer, wird daher nicht gelöscht
jitsi-meet-prosody (1.0.4466-1) wird eingerichtet ...
The given hostname does not exist in the config
The given hostname does not exist in the config
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes jitsi-meet-prosody (--configure):
»installiertes jitsi-meet-prosody-Skript des Paketes post-installation«-Unterprozess gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von jitsi-meet:
jitsi-meet hängt ab von jitsi-meet-prosody (= 1.0.4466-1); aber:
Paket jitsi-meet-prosody ist noch nicht konfiguriert.
dpkg: Error while editing the package jitsi-meet (--configure):
dependency problems - is unconfigured
dpkg: Dependency problems prevent configuration of jitsi-meet-turnserver:
jitsi-meet-turnserver depends on jitsi-meet-prosody; but:
package jitsi-meet-prosody is not configured yet.
dpkg: Error while editing the package jitsi-meet-turnserver (--configure):
dependency problems - is unconfigured
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1.2) ...
Processing triggers for cups (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.8) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Errors occurred while editing:
jitsi-meet-prosody
jitsi-meet
jitsi-meet-turnserver
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I remember that an unfinished jitsi installation has caused installation problems with other installations.
I guess before I run hplip-3.20.9.run I should clean the unfinished jitsi leftover pieces from my configuration. How do I clean this?
hp-plugin. – N0rbert Nov 12 '20 at 11:18