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HPLIP 3.12.10 installation fail on Ubuntu 8.04

Asked by Jan Gran

OS: Ubuntu 8.04
Printer: HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401dn
HPLIP: 3.12.10

On http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html it says the Automatic Installer is known to work on Ubuntu 8.04, but when I try run "hplip-3.12.10.run" it fails. First it correctly identify "Ubuntu 8.04" as distro/OS then it tries to install "libcups2-dev" which is not available for Ubuntu 8.04, so I manually install "libcupsys2-dev" which is the correct package name for Ubuntu 8.04. It continues with wrong package names (that actually are installed):
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes cups-bsd (correct and already installed: cupsys-bsd)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes cups-client (correct and already installed: cupsys-client)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libusb-1.0.0-dev (correct and already installed: libusb-dev)

It then continues and seems successfull in installing packages, but stops at the end with an error message:
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libtool'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libcupsimage2-dev'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes openssl'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libsnmp-dev'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes policykit'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes policykit-gnome'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python-notify'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libdbus-1-dev'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libsane-dev'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes sane-utils'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
Running 'sudo apt-get install --assume-yes xsane'
Please wait, this may take several minutes...
error: A required dependency 'libusb (libusb - USB library)' is still missing.

RUNNING POST-PACKAGE COMMANDS
-----------------------------
OK

RE-CHECKING DEPENDENCIES
------------------------
error: A required dependency 'libusb (libusb - USB library)' is still missing.
error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency.
error: Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer.

But libusb is already installed:
$ dpkg -l|grep libusb
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-8 userspace USB programming library
ii libusb-dev 2:0.1.12-8 userspace USB programming library developmen

Any suggestions on how to get my HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401dn to work on Ubuntu 8.04?

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Amarnath Chitumalla (amarnath-chitumalla) said : 		#1

Hi Jan Gran,

hplip-3.12.10 check for libusb-1.0 instead of libusb-0.1. please follow below steps for libusb-0.1
$ cd ~/Downloads/hplip-3.12.10 (assuming hplip-3.12.10.run is downloaded in ~/Downloads folder)

--> if 32 bit system
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libusb01_build

--> if 64 bit system
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-libusb01_build

$make
$sudo make install

Thanks & Regards,
Amarnath

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Jan Gran (jan-gran) said : 		#2

Thanks, this is a 32 bit system so I ran:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libusb01_build
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
[...]
checking for policykit... no
checking for host machine platform... x86_32
checking for CRYPTO_free in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: cannot find net-snmp support (or --disable-network-build)

Any idea?

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Ani Balakrishnan (anib) said : 		#3

Hi,

Please follow the installation instructions given at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/ubuntu.html
for configuration.

Thanks and Regards
Ani Balakrishnan

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