HP Printer not printing after installing Ub 11.04

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | grep hplip

Thanks

Dear actionparsnip

Attached below as requested

srikumar@srikumar-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | grep hplip
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
ii hplip 3.11.1-2ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii hplip-cups 3.11.1-2ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster driver (hpcups)
ii hplip-data 3.11.1-2ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files
srikumar@srikumar-desktop:~$

kind regards
srikumar

Grab the latest HPLIP from the HPLIP site and it may help

Have down loaded the latest version of HPLIP.
The installation was aborted with the following message:-

INSTALL MISSING REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
-------------------------------------
warning: There are 6 missing REQUIRED dependencies.
note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection.
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: python-devel (Python devel - Python development files)
warning: This installer cannot install 'python-devel' for your distro/OS and/or version.
error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency. Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer.
srikumar@srikumar-desktop:~$

How to proceed.

Thank you
srikumar

Try installing the "python-dev" package. e.g.:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

Thank you Michael Wood - python dev was installed.

Now the next problem:-

INSTALL MISSING REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
-------------------------------------
warning: There are 5 missing REQUIRED dependencies.
note: Installation of dependencies requires an active internet connection.
warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: cups-devel (CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files)
warning: This installer cannot install 'cups-devel' for your distro/OS and/or version.
error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency. Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer.
srikumar@srikumar-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install cups-devel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package cups-devel
srikumar@srikumar-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install cups-devel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package cups-devel
srikumar@srikumar-desktop:~$

How to install cups-devel

Thank you
srikumar

Thank you actionparsnip

It worked like a dream and the printers are working again.

God Bless
srikumar

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

HPLIP is a strange creature, it needs satisfying but then it's great. HP love Linux and make amazing drivers :)

Glad you got the gold

Help me with thiss error after i installed all the missing REQUIRED dependencies.
Using
sudo apt-get install python-dev libcups2 cups libcups2-dev cups-bsd cups-client libcupsimage2-dev libdbus-1-dev build-essential ghostscript openssl libjpeg62-dev libsnmp-dev libtool libusb-dev python-imaging policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome python-qt4 python-qt4-dbus python-dbus python-gobject python-dev python-notify python python-reportlab libsane libsane-dev sane-utils xsane

Blah blah .................

Get:66 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main python-reportlab-accel i386 2.5-1ubuntu1 [54.8 kB]
Get:67 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe xsane-common all 0.998-1ubuntu1 [1,815 kB]
Get:68 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe xsane i386 0.998-1ubuntu1 [260 kB]
Fetched 46.1 MB in 3min 20s (230 kB/s)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 22420 package 'libgpm2':
 field name `Status>' must be followed by colon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Still i tried installing the same and got the following error..

unmesh@Margaret:~$ sh hplip-3.11.3a.run
Creating directory hplip-3.11.3a
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.11.3a Self Extracting Archive.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.3a)
HPLIP Installer ver. 5.1

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard 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-11-May-2011_16:27:04.log

/./hplip-install: line 2: 8780 Segmentation fault python ./install.py -i $*

please help actionparsnip..
thnx in advance

printers 1020 and 1005P are not working after installation of Ubuntu 11.04. There is some os related issue due to which printers are not working. To know more <a href="https://printerchatsupport.co.uk/hp-printer-support/">Hp printer support</a>