HPLIP 3.18.12 is not installing

Error message
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
HPLIP Installer ver. 5.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Installer log saved in: hplip-install_Wed-16-Jan-2019_22:27:10.log

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|Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/base/utils.py", line 266, in walkFiles
    names = os.listdir(root)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/include/cups'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/base/utils.py", line 268, in walkFiles
    raise StopIteration
StopIteration

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./install.py", line 241, in <module>
    text_install.start(language, auto, test_depends, test_unknown, assume_network, max_retries, enable, disable)
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/installer/text_install.py", line 86, in start
    core.init()
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/installer/core_install.py", line 528, in init
    self.check_dependencies(callback)
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/installer/core_install.py", line 621, in check_dependencies
    self.have_dependencies[d] = self.dependencies[d][3]()
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/installer/core_install.py", line 1167, in check_cups_image
    return check_file("raster.h", "/usr/include/cups")
  File "/home/user/Downloads/hplip-3.18.12/installer/dcheck.py", line 108, in check_file
    for w in utils.walkFiles(dir, recurse=True, abs_paths=True, return_folders=False, pattern=f):
RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration
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