Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

wingcommander1999 · 2025-01-18 18:08:06

Hi dear Devuan Users,

I hope you have had a good start to this new year

Since I migrated to Devuan after many years under LMDE, the HP HPLIP plugin gives me headaches when installing it .

Any precision, i'm using the Nvidia Community Drivers for my RTX4060TI, and not Nouveau.

Here the error message:

note: Using PyQt5
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display 
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

./hplip-plugin-install : line 21 :  9532 Abort                 python3 ./plugin_install.py $1 $2 $3 $4 $5

After searching the web, all the resources found were unsuccessful.
Maybe an informed user among the Devuan Community could share their knowledge

Waiting for your feedback

Last edited by wingcommander1999 (2025-01-18 18:14:04)

rolfie · 2025-01-18 22:44:24

Is that plugin from the Devuan repo or have you downloaded it from the HP home page?

Andre4freedom · 2025-01-19 10:13:34

Hello
remembering from the days when I used HP printers (Print/Scan/Copy) on Devuan Daedalus:

All I had to do is:
install
-cups
-hplip
-hplip-data
-hplip-gui
-python3-pyqt5 (Python 3 bindings for Qt5)
Including all dependencies from the Devuan Daedalus repos only. And it rocked.

Now I'm using Brother MFC devices. With these I don't even have to install tools or drivers, just CUPS. The printer just works once connected to my local network (LAN). And it rocks even more. So cool.

wingcommander1999 · 2025-01-19 12:33:04

@rolfie

The plugin i use cames from here

@Andre4freedom

Thanks for your reply, but didn't work for me

rolfie · 2025-01-19 13:00:36

@wingcommander1999: you have confirmed that you try to install stuff coming directly from the HP website. Get rid of that and try to work with the tested stuff from inside the repo. Chances are good that that will work.

greenjeans · 2025-01-19 20:47:32

I'm not into printing so much, but the wife is, so on her machine the first thing I install is usually system-config-printer and then specific drivers for our printer brand. It really makes configuring a breeze even for someone like me who generally doesn't use a printer.

Definitely stay within the repo unless you need a PPD that just isn't available.

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#1 2025-01-18 18:08:06

Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

#2 2025-01-18 22:44:24

Re: Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

#3 2025-01-19 10:13:34

Re: Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

#4 2025-01-19 12:33:04

Re: Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

#5 2025-01-19 13:00:36

Re: Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

#6 2025-01-19 20:47:32

Re: Cannot install HPLIP Plugin on Devuan

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