I am trying to set up my HP LaserJet P1102 on Ubuntu 19.04.
I know the theoretical procedure to install the printer, but this procedure does not work for me, following the "correct" procedure to install the printer (the software + the plugin) fails as follows.
I have downloaded and installed hplip 3.19.5 from here.
At first the installation seems to succeed. It asks for plugin to be installed, then it says "Plugin installation successful". But after I click OK on this message, it returns to the window in which I should choose which printer to install, and another message pops up:
error: The device you are trying to setup requires a binary plug-in. Some functionalities may not work as expected without plug-ins. Please run 'hp-plugin' as normal user to install plug-ins. Visit http://hplipopensource.com for more infomation.
error: hp-setup failed. Please run hp-setup manually.
hp-check
and see if any error messages come up. In most caseshplip
needs some more packages to function, and it can't install these by itself. You might be getting a number oferror: 'libxxx' package is missing/incompatible
messages. If so, simply dosudo apt install libxxx
and try again.