Plugin fails to install; xsane, hplip, fedora 31 up to date as of today, laserjet pro m148fdw

Asked by Dan Taylor

Trying to scan with xsane on system described above. Printer is networked. Prints fine. Xsane sees the networked printer. When I select it upon starting xsane, I get a 'failed to open device' error, and a dialog box from HP Device Manager; requires proprietary plugin which is missing. I click 'next' to continue. On next screen I select 'Download and install the plugin from an HP authorized server', click next. I then get a checksum error (same error on multiple attempts).

These messages in terminal window:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.3)
Diagnose Plugin Utility ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 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.

QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.3)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-18 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.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.3)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-18 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.

QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
Checking for network connection...
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

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Best Anam Alam (anam03) said :
#1

"Try downloading the plugin from https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/plugins
 and install the plugin separately as below:

sh YOUR_DOWNLOADED_PLUGIN_FILE
The version of your hplip and hp-plugin should match
"

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Dan Taylor (fnordmorph) said :
#2

Seems to have worked. Thanks!