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No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Asked by John Wilson

Having upgraded to 15.10 I need to reinstall and configure my printer following these instruction to use hplip-3.15.9: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/ubuntu.html
Step 4 is to compile which I did using the 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10 and beyond instructions.
With step 5 when I run the make command I get this error message: No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
In my hplip-3.15.9 folder there are the following Makefile.am and Makefile.in
What am I doing wrong?

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#1

This may be the problem: configure: error: cannot find python-devel support
Will try Synaptic to get it

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

If you want hplip, you don't have to compile. There is an installer, just like you would use in Windows.

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hplip/hplip-3.15.9.run

chmod +x ./hplip-3.15.9.run

./hplip-3.15.9.run

Easy peasy

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.