HP-1050-J410 Series Printer stopped scanning w/ Simple Scan

I found "apt-get install hplip-gui" which fixed that. Now when I try to do and upgrade for latest hp driver in terminal I get:

lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip-3.16.11.run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Unable to locate package hplip-3.16.11.run
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'hplip-3.16.11.run'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'hplip-3.16.11.run'

File is on desktop and "allow executing file as program" box is checked in file permissions properties.

Let's tidy up first, then we can install the file you downloaded, which isn't installed in the way you have tried.

If you run:

cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list.d/20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist

Thanks

lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list.d/20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist
cat: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist: No such file or directory

OK that must have been sorted. What is the output of:

sudo updatedb; locate hplip-3.16.11.run

Thanks

I moved the file:
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ sudo updatedb; locate hplip-3.16.11.run
/home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run.asc

OK, run:

mv /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run.asc /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run

chmod +x /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run

/home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run

Note that sudo is not used. You will be asked for your password during install

lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ mv /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run.asc /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ chmod +x /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run
/home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run: line 1: -----BEGIN: command not found
/home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run: line 2: `Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)'
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ mv /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run.asc /home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run
mv: cannot stat '/home/lessho/Misc/hplip-3.16.11.run.asc': No such file or directory

Looks like the file you downloaded was faulty. You can re-download it with.

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hplip/hplip-3.16.11.run

lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip-3.16.11.run
[sudo] password for lessho:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Unable to locate package hplip-3.16.11.run
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'hplip-3.16.11.run'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'hplip-3.16.11.run'
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~$ cd Desktop
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install hplip-3.16.11.run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Unable to locate package hplip-3.16.11.run
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'hplip-3.16.11.run'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'hplip-3.16.11.run'
lessho@lessho-Inspiron-660s:~/Desktop$

I don't know if this is related or not but my printer has a driver diagnose that I run and I get this:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.16.3)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0

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.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.16.3)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0

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.

Checking for Deprecated items....
No Deprecated items are found

Checking for HPLIP updates....
error: Failed to locate hp-upgrade utility

Checking for Dependencies....

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

 Kernel: 4.4.0-59-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:47:47 UTC 2017 GNU/Linux
 Host: lessho-Inspiron-660s
 Proc: 4.4.0-59-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:47:47 UTC 2017 GNU/Linux
 Distribution: ubuntu 16.04
 Bitness: 64 bit

-----------------------
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
-----------------------

HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.16.3
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is supported for ubuntu distro 16.04 version

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.16.3

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hplip
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc
icon=no
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv
bin=/usr/bin
apparmor=/etc/apparmor.d
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=yes
foomatic-drv-install=yes
foomatic-ppd-install=yes
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.16.3
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=yes
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no
apparmor_build=no

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
Plugins are not installed. Could not access file: No such file or directory

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
[upgrade]
notify_upgrade = true
last_upgraded_time = 1469113489
pending_upgrade_time = 0
latest_available_version = 3.16.5

[settings]
systray_visible = 0
systray_messages = 0

[last_used]
device_uri = "hp:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series?serial=CN3533DG5C05NG"
printer_name = Deskjet_1050_J410
working_dir = .

[commands]
scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%

[refresh]
rate = 30
enable = false
type = 1

[polling]
enable = false
interval = 5
device_list =

[fax]
voice_phone =
email_address =

[installation]
date_time = 01/21/17 06:32:51
version = 3.16.3

 <Package-name> <Package-Desc> <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status> <Comment>

--------------------------
| External Dependencies |
--------------------------

 scanimage scanimage - Shell scanning program OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.25 OK -
 cups CUPS - Common Unix Printing System REQUIRED 1.1 2.1.3 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is running'
 network network -wget OPTIONAL - 1.17.1 OK -
 xsane xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE OPTIONAL 0.9 0.999 OK -
 avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - 0.6.32 OK -
 dbus DBus - Message bus system REQUIRED - 1.10.6 OK -
 policykit PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework OPTIONAL - 0.105 OK -
 gs GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer REQUIRED 7.05 9.18 OK -

-------------------------
| General Dependencies |
-------------------------

 libpthread libpthread - POSIX threads library REQUIRED - b'2.23' OK -
 python3-pil PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan) OPTIONAL - 1.1.7 OK -
 python3-pyqt4 PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x) REQUIRED 4.0 4.11.4 OK -
 sane SANE - Scanning library REQUIRED - 1.0.25 OK -
 python3-dbus Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus REQUIRED 0.80.0 1.2.0 OK -
 cups-image CUPS image - CUPS image development files REQUIRED - 2.1.3 OK -
 python3-devel Python devel - Python development files REQUIRED 2.2 3.5.2 OK -
 libnetsnmp-devel libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.7.3 OK -
 libcrypto libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library REQUIRED - 1.0.2 OK -
 python3-reportlab Reportlab - PDF library for Python OPTIONAL 2.0 3.3.0 OK -
 libusb libusb - USB library REQUIRED - 1.0 OK -
 python3-xml Python XML libraries REQUIRED - 2.1.0 OK -
 python3X Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language REQUIRED 2.2 3.5.2 OK -
 sane-devel SANE - Scanning library development files REQUIRED - 1.0.25 OK -
 cups-devel CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files REQUIRED - 2.1.3 OK -
 python3-pyqt4-dbus PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4 OPTIONAL 4.0 4.11.4 OK -
 python3-notify2 Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications OPTIONAL - - OK -
 libjpeg libjpeg - JPEG library REQUIRED - - OK -

---------------
| COMPILEDEP |
---------------

 make make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs REQUIRED 3.0 4.1 OK -
 gcc gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler REQUIRED - 5.4.0 OK -
 libtool libtool - Library building support services REQUIRED - 2.4.6 OK -

----------------------
| Python Extentions |
----------------------

 hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.16.3 OK -
 cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.16.3 OK -

-----------------------
| Scan Configuration |
-----------------------

 scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.16.3 OK -
'/etc/sane.d/dll.d/hpaio' not found.
 hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.16.3 OK 'hpaio found in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'

-----------------------
| Other Dependencies |
-----------------------

------------------------------
| DISCOVERED SCANNER DEVICES |
------------------------------

device `hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series?serial=CN3533DG5C05NG' is a Hewlett-Packard Deskjet_1050_J410_series all-in-one

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------- ---------------------------
  hp:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series HP Deskjet 1050 J410 series
  ?serial=CN3533DG5C05NG

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series
---------------------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series?serial=CN3533DG5C05NG
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series.ppd
warning: Failed to read /etc/cups/ppd/HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series.ppd ppd file
PPD Description:
Printer status: printer HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series is idle. enabled since Fri 20 Jan 2017 09:08:19 PM EST
Communication status: Good

--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------

USB HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series Required - - OK Node:'/dev/bus/usb/002/004' Perm:' root lp rw- rw- rw- rw- r--'

Checking for Configured Queues....
warning: Fail to read ppd=/etc/cups/ppd/HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series.ppd file
warning: Insufficient permission to access file /etc/cups/ppd/HP-Deskjet-1050-J410-series.ppd
warning: Could not complete Queue(s) configuration check

Checking for HP Properitery Plugin's....
No plug-in printers are configured.

Diagnose completed...

More information on Troubleshooting,How-To's and Support is available on http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

Please close this terminal manually.

As I said in my first reply, you don't install the file that way.
chmod +x ./hplip-3.16.11.run
./hplip-3.16.11.run

Will run the installer. The chmod command marks it as executable

That worked. I will make a note about the chmod.
Thanks!