HPLIP

When I try to open hplip download, gedit shows the folowing:"The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document."

Asked by Michael Litman

I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I'm trying to install hplip. When I try to open the download folder it loads in gedit. I get the following message: "The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document." What am I doing wrong?

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Michael Litman (precisionboat) said : 		#1

I should mention that I have just enough knowledge of lInux and computers in general to install ubuntu on my computers- but that was the limit-

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

You are not supposed to open the file with the editor, but to start it as an install script.

Open a terminal window and execute the command

cd <directoryname>
sh hplip-<version>.run

(replace directoryname by the name of the directory where you have stored the downloaded file, and replace version by the version number, probably something like 3.17.11)

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Michael Litman (precisionboat) said : 		#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.