On Sunday 08 March 2009 20:58, you wrote:
yes, the "yum list" output shows both installed and available (from the repos you have configured). if not installed it shows the repo - e.g., "base", "rpmforge". so, if you're is showing installed there's something else going on. is it complaining about dbus-python in general, or is it giving a version/release-specific error?
# hp-setup warning: python-dbus not installed.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 8.0
<snip> (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.)
Using connection type: usb
error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality.
That is correct. The printer in question is a networked one, and I would expect to have to set it in hp-setup. It works from other boxes with more recent distros.
there's also:
rpm -qa dbus-python*
to check that something is installed.
That simply returns
dbus-python-0.70-7.el5
Anne
there's also: rpm -qa dbus-python* to check that something is installed.
That simply returns dbus-python-0.70-7.el5
In case you did not try it already, have you tried hp-check? Did you check http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html for dependencies?
JD
On Monday 09 March 2009 13:40, John Doe wrote:
there's also: rpm -qa dbus-python* to check that something is installed.
That simply returns dbus-python-0.70-7.el5
In case you did not try it already, have you tried hp-check?
To me it implies that I have earlier versions of some packages than the required ones.
Did you check http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html for dependencies?
No - I didn't know about that page. When I installed it before there were some included instructions and I followed those. Presumably they are now out of date. I'll try that page in a day or two, when I have time for a decent session. However, I did give yum the command for all those dependencies, and it did find some that I didn't have already, but after that hp-check still listed these:
Checking PyQt 4.x version... error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD!
Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit... warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly
Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x)... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python ctypes - A foreign function library for Python... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
I'll have to come back to this later in the week.
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 09 March 2009 13:40, John Doe wrote:
there's also: rpm -qa dbus-python* to check that something is installed.
That simply returns dbus-python-0.70-7.el5
In case you did not try it already, have you tried hp-check?
To me it implies that I have earlier versions of some packages than the required ones.
Did you check http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html for dependencies?
No - I didn't know about that page. When I installed it before there were some included instructions and I followed those. Presumably they are now out of date. I'll try that page in a day or two, when I have time for a decent session. However, I did give yum the command for all those dependencies, and it did find some that I didn't have already, but after that hp-check still listed these:
Checking PyQt 4.x version... error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD!
Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit... warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly
Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x)... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python ctypes - A foreign function library for Python... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
I'll have to come back to this later in the week.
Anne et al., I have followed the directions on the referenced link. Good for HP for providing such clear instructions, however, All steps complete as hoped but hp-check gives 2 errors & 2 warnings: PyQt4 Dbus error Python Dbus error Reportlab warning CUPS DDK warning
running hp-setup does seem to run and it let me install a printer although it issued an error: error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
running hp-toolbox fails: [roger@rwells-rh hplip-3.9.2]$ hp-toolbox warning: python-dbus not installed.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 246, in ? from ui4.devmgr5 import DevMgr5 File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/devmgr5.py", line 45, in ? from dbus.mainloop.qt import DBusQtMainLoop ImportError: No module named mainloop.qt
I will try a printer with a scanner at home tonight but I am not holding out much hope.
Any ideas appreciated, thanks for everyone's time
roger wells
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Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 09 March 2009 13:40, John Doe wrote:
there's also: rpm -qa dbus-python* to check that something is installed.
That simply returns dbus-python-0.70-7.el5
In case you did not try it already, have you tried hp-check?
To me it implies that I have earlier versions of some packages than the required ones.
Did you check http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html for dependencies?
No - I didn't know about that page. When I installed it before there were some included instructions and I followed those. Presumably they are now out of date. I'll try that page in a day or two, when I have time for a decent session. However, I did give yum the command for all those dependencies, and it did find some that I didn't have already, but after that hp-check still listed these:
Checking PyQt 4.x version... error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD!
Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit... warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly
Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x)... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python ctypes - A foreign function library for Python... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
I'll have to come back to this later in the week.
Anne et al., I have followed the directions on the referenced link. Good for HP for providing such clear instructions, however, All steps complete as hoped but hp-check gives 2 errors & 2 warnings: PyQt4 Dbus error Python Dbus error Reportlab warning CUPS DDK warning
running hp-setup does seem to run and it let me install a printer although it issued an error: error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
running hp-toolbox fails: [roger@rwells-rh hplip-3.9.2]$ hp-toolbox warning: python-dbus not installed.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 246, in ? from ui4.devmgr5 import DevMgr5 File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/devmgr5.py", line 45, in ? from dbus.mainloop.qt import DBusQtMainLoop ImportError: No module named mainloop.qt
I will try a printer with a scanner at home tonight but I am not holding out much hope.
Any ideas appreciated, thanks for everyone's time
roger wells
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
roger wells
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On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". . Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
HTH, roger
Anne
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On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:59:04 Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". . Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
Thanks. I hope to get to this later today.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
I distinctly remember that when I installed hplip on this (Mandriva) laptop for the C7180 I also had the 4x6 problem. I found that there were three places that could affect it. I think they were CUPS setup, KPrinter setup and hplip setup. Two out of three were correct. The third said 4x6. I'm not certain, but I think I had to change KPrinter defaults. Anyway, that's the line to investigate. It didn't take me too long to find it, so I'm sure you will find it too.
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:59:04 Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". . Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
Thanks. I hope to get to this later today.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
I distinctly remember that when I installed hplip on this (Mandriva) laptop for the C7180 I also had the 4x6 problem. I found that there were three places that could affect it. I think they were CUPS setup, KPrinter setup and hplip setup. Two out of three were correct. The third said 4x6. I'm not certain, but I think I had to change KPrinter defaults. Anyway, that's the line to investigate. It didn't take me too long to find it, so I'm sure you will find it too.
thanks. I installed what appeared to be the correct PPD file (hp-photosmart_c6100_series-hpijs.ppd) but now it won't print at all. Still scans though. roger
Anne
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On Friday 13 March 2009 14:06:10 Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:59:04 Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". . Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
Thanks. I hope to get to this later today.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
I distinctly remember that when I installed hplip on this (Mandriva) laptop for the C7180 I also had the 4x6 problem. I found that there were three places that could affect it. I think they were CUPS setup, KPrinter setup and hplip setup. Two out of three were correct. The third said 4x6. I'm not certain, but I think I had to change KPrinter defaults. Anyway, that's the line to investigate. It didn't take me too long to find it, so I'm sure you will find it too.
thanks. I installed what appeared to be the correct PPD file (hp-photosmart_c6100_series-hpijs.ppd) but now it won't print at all. Still scans though. roger
Odd. You did make sure that you got the C6100, not the 6100, didn't you?
Hmm - did a 'locate 7100' on this laptop, and didn't find a .ppd listed at all. It listed
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-PhotoSmart_C7100.xml
This is on my Mandriva laptop, running hplip-2.8.7.
Anne
On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:59, Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
I finally made time to try this again.
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". .
I can't run either hp-toolbox or hp-setup (it complains that it can't run the gui) but I could run 'hp-setup -i' which gives a text install. I thought I might as well follow through the whole kaboodle, but when it got to setting up fax headers it complained (again!) that python-dbus is not installed. It then said
warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode. (which is what I'd just done.)
Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
I saw that too - but then it continued and installed PPD file: foomatic:HP-PhotoSmart_7150-hpijs.ppd. I'm fairly sure that that is the wrong driver. The HP-PhotoSmart_C series are not the same as the HP-PhotoSmart series. The C7100 driver is correct, the 7100 driver does not work. Fortunately the device/queue that I installed under CUPS is still available to me.
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
I can't see the scanner at all, but then xsane seems to bomb out on me.
I don't actually need it on this box, and to tell the truth, I can't spare any more time on it. If it was important I'd use the HP Launchpad to get it fixed, but I'm just going to bale out now.
I'm glad you got a working solution.
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 15:59, Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:45:27 Roger Wells wrote:
I actually did install the home printer last night (Photosmart C6180). "hp-setup' ran fine, discovered the printer and installed it just as it did for the LJ4350 (it didn't find the correct PPD file but...). The good news is that even though hp-toolbox won't run the Centos Scanner Tool works. It discovered the scanner correctly and I was able to operate with it as expected. The scanner is also available within appropriate applications such as OpenOffice and the Gimp.
So maybe we don't need hp-toolbox so much after all.
Glad you got it working, Roger. I knew I wouldn't have time to have another go at this until tomorrow. So did you use the 3.9.2 version? Anything to report about the actual installation?
yes the hplip version is 3.9.2. First I removed the installed version which was 1.6.7, I think. Then I followed the directions at:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/centos.html
I finally made time to try this again.
This went well but the "hp-check" near the end indicated two or three errors that would show up at run-time were present. These are some of what we have been discussing in this thread and are apparently the ones that will prevent "hp-toolbox" from running. They do not apparently affect "hp-setup". .
I can't run either hp-toolbox or hp-setup (it complains that it can't run the gui) but I could run 'hp-setup -i' which gives a text install. I thought I might as well follow through the whole kaboodle, but when it got to setting up fax headers it complained (again!) that python-dbus is not installed. It then said
warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode. (which is what I'd just done.)
Run hp-setup as root (the only way) and it should find your printers. For each of mine a warning was issued:
error: No PPD found for model laserjet_4350. Trying old algorithm...
I saw that too - but then it continued and installed PPD file: foomatic:HP-PhotoSmart_7150-hpijs.ppd. I'm fairly sure that that is the wrong driver. The HP-PhotoSmart_C series are not the same as the HP-PhotoSmart series. The C7100 driver is correct, the 7100 driver does not work. Fortunately the device/queue that I installed under CUPS is still available to me.
In the case of the C6180 this resulted in all printing going to 4x6 inch pages to a printer that only had photograph page size options. When offered to search for PPD files during installation you can take that route and search in /usr/share/ppd/HP for a more appropriate driver. Why "hp-setup" doesn't find drivers there I don't know. I had to select the one with the ".gz" extension to avoid an error about a missing "foomatic-rip-hplip" something or other. You can apparently do this "PPD" changeover after installation.
I did that with the C6180. If it still insists on printing in a 4x6 format I will report back.
As I said earlier the Centos 5.2 Scanner Tool seems to work just fine.
I can't see the scanner at all, but then xsane seems to bomb out on me.
I don't actually need it on this box, and to tell the truth, I can't spare any more time on it. If it was important I'd use the HP Launchpad to get it fixed, but I'm just going to bale out now.
I'm glad you got a working solution.
good luck Anne, my situation got a little more bizarre. The C series driver never worked. At some level perhaps it did because test page's that I printed would never come out, until I rebooted then they would all come on out. The foomatic 7150 driver was never offered to me but I tried it and it seems to work although I don't think faxing does. And scanning still seems fine. For this to work it was necessary to install via HPLIP. cheers, roger wells
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On Monday 16 March 2009 18:36:43 Roger Wells wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
my situation got a little more bizarre. The C series driver never
worked. At some level perhaps it did because test page's that I printed would never come out, until I rebooted then they would all come on out. The foomatic 7150 driver was never offered to me but I tried it and it seems to work although I don't think faxing does. And scanning still seems fine. For this to work it was necessary to install via HPLIP.
I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-( Anyway, as I said, it's not essential for me to have it on that box. It spends most of its life just quietly serving up mail and docs. Basic print ability is all it needs.
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-(
The usual problem when a build procedure complains that a package is missing when you actually have it installed is that you need the matching "-devel" package. The base package just provides the execution libraries. You need the development package in order to build new programs that use those libraries.
Robert Nichols wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-(
The usual problem when a build procedure complains that a package is missing when you actually have it installed is that you need the matching "-devel" package. The base package just provides the execution libraries. You need the development package in order to build new programs that use those libraries.
The point remains, IMHO, that the building and installation of HPLIP should fail if packages that it needs are not there. roger wells
On Monday 16 March 2009 19:30:17 Robert Nichols wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-(
The usual problem when a build procedure complains that a package is missing when you actually have it installed is that you need the matching "-devel" package. The base package just provides the execution libraries. You need the development package in order to build new programs that use those libraries.
Yes, I understand that. I did forget, at the beginning, but that problem was resolved a week or more ago. All the packages that needed -devel packages got them installed. If I had had more time to spend on it, it might have been possible to track down why it failed to find the package. The actuall error was
Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
I might have another play with this setup when things are less busy.
Anne
Anne et al., I have been out for a while. Has any resolution to this occurred. I am still interested in it working correctly even though I seem to have a "kludge" sort of working, i.e. I can scan & print, no fax but I can live with that. roger wells
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 16 March 2009 19:30:17 Robert Nichols wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
I have hplip running on Mandriva 2009, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10. I get the full range of services there. I don't know why we have this strange situation on CentOS. The HP website says it is tested against CentOS 5, yet the problems seem to be down to not being able to find packages that are definitely installed, and installed by totally standard yum :-(
The usual problem when a build procedure complains that a package is missing when you actually have it installed is that you need the matching "-devel" package. The base package just provides the execution libraries. You need the development package in order to build new programs that use those libraries.
Yes, I understand that. I did forget, at the beginning, but that problem was resolved a week or more ago. All the packages that needed -devel packages got them installed. If I had had more time to spend on it, it might have been possible to track down why it failed to find the package. The actuall error was
Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
I might have another play with this setup when things are less busy.
Anne
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On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:22:19 Roger Wells wrote:
Anne et al., I have been out for a while. Has any resolution to this occurred. I am still interested in it working correctly even though I seem to have a "kludge" sort of working, i.e. I can scan & print, no fax but I can live with that. roger wells
Sorry, no news at all. I didn't even manage to get scanning working, as you did. I'm still printing from the CUPS queue. At one point I saw a message that seemed to point to qt4 - which might be the cause of the problem regarding the gui. I'm inclined to try an earlier version when I have some time to spare.
Anne
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