HPLIP

hp-toolbox will not run on kubuntu 20.10

Asked by RIchard Seitz on 2020-12-27

The following is the error when I try to run the hp-toolbox command in a terminal.

error: Unable to locate models.dat file

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.0.0)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 269, in <module>
    QApplication, ui_package = utils.import_dialog(ui_toolkit)
TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable NoneType object

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2021-01-06
shivani mandora (shivani1708) said : #1

Hi ,

From your output I can see that the HPLIP version is 0.0.0.
First , please install latest HPLIP driver and plugin file from below link:

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/plugins
Install run file via below commnad:

$sh hplip-3.20.11.run

And if you are facing issues in adding screenshots here then paste the output of below here:

$hp-setup
$hp-check

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