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deepforest

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How install hplip-3.25.8?

Installation can resolve this dependencies,
some of them are installed but hplip can't recognize it

MISSING DEPENDENCIES
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Following dependencies are not installed. HPLIP will not work if all REQUIRED dependencies are not installed and some of the HPLIP features will not work if OPTIONAL dependencies are not installed.
Package-Name         Component            Required/Optional   
libtool              base                 REQUIRED            
cups-devel           base                 REQUIRED            
cups-image           base                 REQUIRED            
libusb               base                 REQUIRED            
python3-pyqt4-dbus   gui_qt4              OPTIONAL            
python3-pyqt4        gui_qt4              REQUIRED            
python3-devel        base                 REQUIRED            
Do you want to install these missing dependencies (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ? y

INSTALL MISSING REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
-------------------------------------
note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection.
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libtool (libtool - Library building support services)
warning: This installer cannot install 'libtool' for your distro/OS and/or version.
error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency. Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer.
freeartist-devuan@devuan:~/Downloads$ 

freeartist-devuan@devuan:~sudo apt install libtool
libtool is already the newest version (2.5.4-4).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libjpeg-turbo-progs  libturbojpeg0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
freeartist-devuan@devuan:~/Downloads$ 

Last edited by deepforest (2026-05-10 02:46:21)

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RedGreen925

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

It will install here without problems but then again I use the system as intended with native debian/devuan packages, not some third party versions that as you have experienced can cause problems.

root@9600k:~# apt -s install hplip

Installing:                     
  hplip

Installing dependencies:
  hplip-data             printer-driver-postscript-hp  python3-ptyprocess
  libhpmud0              python3-freetype              python3-reportlab
  libraqm0               python3-olefile               python3-rlpycairo
  libsane-hpaio          python3-pexpect
  printer-driver-hpcups  python3-pil

Suggested packages:
  hplip-doc  python-pexpect-doc  python3-egenix-mxtexttools  rl-accel
  hplip-gui  python-pil-doc      python-reportlab-doc        rl-renderpm

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 14, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
Inst hplip-data (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Inst libhpmud0 (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Inst libsane-hpaio (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Inst printer-driver-hpcups (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Inst python3-ptyprocess (0.7.0-6 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Inst python3-pexpect (4.9-3 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Inst libraqm0 (0.10.2-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Inst python3-pil (11.1.0-5+deb13u2 Devuan:6.0/stable-proposed-updates, Devuan-Security:6.0/stable-security [amd64])
Inst python3-freetype (2.5.1-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Inst python3-rlpycairo (0.3.0-3 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Inst python3-reportlab (4.3.1-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Inst hplip (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Inst printer-driver-postscript-hp (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Inst python3-olefile (0.47-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf hplip-data (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf libhpmud0 (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Conf libsane-hpaio (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Conf printer-driver-hpcups (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Conf python3-ptyprocess (0.7.0-6 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf python3-pexpect (4.9-3 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf libraqm0 (0.10.2-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Conf python3-pil (11.1.0-5+deb13u2 Devuan:6.0/stable-proposed-updates, Devuan-Security:6.0/stable-security [amd64])
Conf python3-freetype (2.5.1-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf python3-rlpycairo (0.3.0-3 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf python3-reportlab (4.3.1-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])
Conf hplip (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Conf printer-driver-postscript-hp (3.22.10+dfsg0-8.1 Devuan:6.0/stable [amd64])
Conf python3-olefile (0.47-1 Devuan:6.0/stable [all])

The highest version available is a .22

https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

Try a package built for your system  you may get it working.

deepforest

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

The highest version available is a .22

i forget to say, i try install new version from here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/ … ip/3.25.8/
debian repos always have unfresh old software;)

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RedGreen925

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

debian repos always have unfresh old software;)

And for the most part those packages will install and work. You are using the wrong distribution if you want bleeding edge software. A Debian based system is never going to give you that. You have two options tried and true install old version package which could work WHEN it installs or waste the time never getting the newest to even install. To top it off it is .run file which is going to do nothing but pollute the system with files it will have no idea of, possibly causing conflicts if it installs file(s) over existing one(s).

Altoid

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

Hello:

... for the most part those packages will install and work.
... .run file which is going to do nothing but pollute the system ...

+1

Best,

A.

deepforest

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

A Debian based system is never going to give you that

My question in first post of this topic - Why lasted hplip installation interrupts at dependencies stage? Devuan here already have most part of needed dependencies but hplip 3.25.8 do not recognize it?

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steve_v

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

Why lasted hplip installation interrupts at dependencies stage? Devuan here already have most part of needed dependencies but hplip 3.25.8 do not recognize

Why would anyone here know (or care) about some random executable "installer"? As already stated (more than once) the packages in the repos work fine, and that's what people who don't want a broken system use.
If you really want to know, ask whoever provided that .run file - or extract it and look at whatever pre-install checks it's doing yourself, since it's probably just a bunch of shell concatenated with a compressed archive. My bet is that it's looking for Ubuntu package names or specific versions, but that's for you to determine if you insist on installing "fresh" software in weird formats.

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deepforest

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

"Why would anyone here know (or care) about some random executable "installer"?"

HP site refers to this, so its not "random"
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/ … ip/3.25.8/

Last edited by deepforest (Yesterday 21:14:52)

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steve_v

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

HP site refers to this

Do not obtain software from anywhere other than Debian, not even from the software's author, unless you have the skills and the time to solve the resultant problems!

Don't suffer from Shiny New Stuff Syndrome

Over and over again you ignore this advice, then when things inevitably break, you go and post a bunch of off-topic "Linux is buggy" comments in random threads.

If you must have the latest hplip from unofficial sources, either fix the installer or build it from source. The latter might be as easy as a 'uupdate' against the existing Debian/Devuan sources with a new upstream tarball. Whining about things not working when all the documentation warns you about exactly that achieves nothing.

Last edited by steve_v (Today 05:50:20)

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Robin

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Re: How install hplip-3.25.8?

You could always use Arch, by the way. The latest and greatest, newest and shiniest, untested, unproven, but it still has the new car smell.
Devuan is STABLE; tested, proven, reliable. But "older" because it takes time to test and prove new software.

You might be happier on a distro like Artix because it's also systemd-free, XLibre, and built Arch.

Devuan is not going to change from it's stated purpose and goals to accommodate one user with unrealistic expectations.