HPLIP

remove after install via script

Asked by Fabrício Jardim Ferreira

Hi.
Installed hplip via automatic script because the scanner from my HP 8600 was not working.
Installation got a few minor errors but everything seemed be working after all.
However after some time my system can't update properly giving many error messages related to dependencies and things like that.
I decided to remove the drivers installed via script and reinstall the version that came with Ubuntu 18.04 but the only instructions I could find assumed it was installed from source. (https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/howtos/install#howtocheck7)

How should I proceed?

Thanks for any help.

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Best srinivas (srinivas5) said : 		#1

Hi Fabricio,

You can follow the steps under section "How to Uninstall HPLIP" in the link in your message.
or
you can try "sudo apt-get remove --purge hplip" command
or
you can use "sudo hp-uninstall " command

And to install please follow the below steps
1.Goto https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip and download and install the latest driver and plugin for Ubuntu distro.
2.Do hp-setup to add device.

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Fabrício Jardim Ferreira (fabriciojardim) said : 		#2

Hi, already tried apt method it didn't work because some error related to python package.
hp-uninstall did the job.
After that I did a apt-get upgrade and got a message to correct the issue.
I'm sorry I didn't took steps to document it.
Thanks.