HPLIP

hp-plugin fails to download

Asked by Frank Sandefur

all attempts to install the required bianary plugin for my M177 printer returns:

Downloading plug-in from:
error: Plugin download failed with error code = 8
error: file does not match its checksum. File may have been corrupted or altered

Kubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit
HPlips 3.15.7

hp-check returns only one warning:

HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M177fw
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Type: Unknown
Device URI: socket://192.168.0.101:9100
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M177fw.ppd
PPD Description: HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP m177fw, hpcups 3.15.7, requires proprietary plugin
Printer status: printer HP_Color_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M177fw is idle. enabled since Sat 18 Jul 2015 11:52:28 AM CDT
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend for HP-Devices.

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Rob-N4RPS (rpsargeant) said : 		#1

Hello!

HP's download servers are down this weekend (7-18-15 and 7-19-15) for maintenance. Meanwhile, reference this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/649963/hplip-gives-a-error-messages-when-trying-to-installing-plug-in-for-hp-p1102w-pri

You can probably close this one after HP restores its servers to service.

I wish solving my issue with my Ubuntu SSO was this simple. Tired of the ivory tower, it's easier to just create a new account every time it won't let me on...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

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goutam (goutamkk) said : 		#2

Sourceforge site is down for some reason and unfortunately hp-plugin utility is not able to fetch the plugin.conf from sorceforge site.
Can you directly download the plugin files from here:
https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.15.7-plugin.run
https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.15.7-plugin.run.asc

To install the plugin file you can run command 'sh hplip-3.15.7-plugin.run' in terminal or you can run command 'hp-plugin' in terminal and choose the second option to manually select the hplip-3.15.7-plugin.run file and install.

Run command 'hp-setup' to configure the print queue.

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Frank Sandefur (fsandefur) said : 		#3

Thanks for the help. I did use goutam's solution and just directly DL's the files and installed them.

However, when I did the hplips install on my laptop late this afternoon, it failed once, then worked perfectly
when I retried. So my guess is the servers have come back up. OR they did for a few minutes anyway.