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I've been trying to install hplip for quite a while so I can use my LaserJet m1132 printer, but I've been unsuccesful. At first it failed to install the proprietary plugin from the HP servers, with this message displayed: "Plugin download failed with error code = 4". I uninstalled it and installed it again several times including cups to no avail, then I tried to install the plugin manually from the openprinting archive but it displayed this message: "error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed error: Plug-in install failed." What am I supposed to do to fix this issue? When I try to print it says that it can't communicate with the printer. I'm new to the linuxlite community and I still don't have much experience, when I was using lubuntu the printer worked fine after a little bit of work installing everything so I know it's possible to make it work on linux.
Thank you for your help.

Not sure as to how you've installed but... heres some info for HP printers from the help manual..

https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/hardw...hpprinters
May be a good start..

(01-01-2019, 03:17 AM)firenice03 link Wrote: [ -> ]Not sure as to how you've installed but... heres some info for HP printers from the help manual..

Ok thank you I followed the instructions but HPLIP toolbox doesn't recognize my device, I have to set it up via terminal and it always ends up showing the errors that I referenced in my first post.

Hello,

I have a printer that requires a proprietary plugin too, and until now i had to manually run "hp-plugin" to be able to download the plugin.

If the plugin comes with a ".run" file, you can try to make it executable and it may work.

If it doesn't help, I'll try to do it again on my side... I don't do it that often.

hplip already comes in LL preinstalled. So now you've probably got corruption issues by trying to install a different version via a different method.