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I have an HP ENVY 4500 e-all-in-one printer. It installed & prints successfully. But the scanner function does not work. Simple Scan says no scanner detected. I ran the command sudo sane-find-scanner & the scaner was also not detected.

I tied upgrading my hplip driver to the latest version, but it fails with an error that GCC is not installed. But I know for a fact GCC is installed.

Any help would be appreciated.

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  • I tried doing this as sudo, but still did not work. I also edited the dll.conf file for sane. Since no help from ubunu users, I tried this answer that worked on my Arch system, but unsuccessfully on my Ubuntu 13.04 system.: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sane#For_HP_hardware
    – LinuxPCplus
    Commented Sep 2, 2013 at 18:42
  • I'd try uninstalling gcc manually on Synaptic, reboot, and then installing gcc again using Synaptic.
    – user123492
    Commented Sep 2, 2013 at 18:57
  • Yea, tried that already. No luck.
    – LinuxPCplus
    Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 2:45
  • Uninstall libsane, reboot and install libsane.
    – user123492
    Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 13:33
  • Did that too. Let me clarify, I uninstalled ALL dependencies, then reinstalled them. None of that worked.
    – LinuxPCplus
    Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 20:24

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Try this: it worked for me. I have the same printer and had same issues until I used the terminal command hp-setup.

For more information https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sane#For_HP_hardware

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I had the same issue and the following steps resolved my issue. Setup the printer with:

hp-setup

and scan your document with:

hp-scan
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Just bought an HP Envy 4500. Worked out of the box with Ubuntu 14.04LTS - print, copy, scan. Simply added it as a printer with hplip.

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  • John, would you mind adding some details? I'm trying to set up a 5660, but hp-setup won't see it at all. A detail of Step 1, 2, 3, etc., would be great. Thank you.
    – pythonlarry
    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 22:05

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