After building & installing hplip-3.17.6 on Slackware 14.2, cannot run hp-check or hp-toolbox
I've been trying to install hplip-3.17.6 on Slackware 14.2 (64bit). It builds and installs okay (with a good share of warnings...), but when I try to run either 'hp-check' or 'hp-toolbox', I get errors:
$ hp-check
warning: CUPSEXT could not be loaded. Please check HPLIP installation.
$ hp-toolbox
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/
from base import status, tui, module
File "/usr/local/
import cupsext
ImportError: No module named cupsext
After extracting the files from hplip-3.17.6.run file, I configure using the following options:
./configure --with-
Then, I did 'make' followed by 'sudo make install'. Then I tried to run 'hp-check' and 'hp-toolbox' and got the errors listed above.
Since I don't know python, and don't feel safe hacking python code, I've been looking for workarounds and/or advice.
Any suggestions? Am I building it incorrectly (and if so, what configure options do you suggest...)? Do I need to set environment symbols for Python?
BTW, I use hplip on a Ubuntu distro and when I searched for 'cupsext' (locate cupext) on a Ubuntu partition, I find '/usr/lib/
Other system info:
$ uname -a
Linux werz2 4.9.31 #2 SMP Wed Jun 7 15:09:05 CDT 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ python --version
Python 2.7.13
$ ls /usr/lib64/
(622 python files + 26 subdirectories)
Thanks!
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