{"id":4641,"date":"2015-02-06T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2015-02-06T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:44:08","slug":"hplip-adds-python3-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/hplip-adds-python3-support\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Printer Drivers &#8216;HPLIP&#8217; Adds Python 3, New Distro&#8217;s Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hp-printer-drivers-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hp-printer-drivers-icon.png\" alt=\"HP Printer Drivers for Linux\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hp-printer-drivers-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hp-printer-drivers-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HPLIP, <i>HP print, scan and fax drivers for Linux<\/i>, has recently reached the 3.15.2 release with new Linux distributions support, Python 3 support, and a few bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>For the Python 3 support for HPLIP, there are some limitations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t support Fax Cover Page in Python 3 environments<\/li>\n<li>XSane installation failed message on Debian, type &#8216;n&#8217; to continue installation when HPLIP tools ask to retry xsane installation<\/li>\n<li>Cannot launch hp-toolbox for Python less than version 3.4<\/li>\n<li>Dependent package installation fails on Fedora<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Distro&#8217;s added support in HPLIP 3.15.2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debian 7.7, 7.8<\/li>\n<li>OpenSuse 13.2<\/li>\n<li>Fedora 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the launchpad fixes in this release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t build against libjpeg-turbo 1.3.90<\/li>\n<li>hpcups crashes if DEVICE_URI not set in environment<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect call to hpmudext.device_open<\/li>\n<li>plugin download fails if python links to python3<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect IEEE 1284 Device IDs for many models<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to install\/upgrade HPLIP in Linux:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>First download the HPLIP installer, the <i>&#8220;hplip-x.x.x.run&#8221;<\/i> file at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/hplip\/files\/hplip\/' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-blue' target=\"_blank\" >Download HPLIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the download process finish, open a terminal window and cd to the downloads folder:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">cd ~\/Downloads<\/pre>\n<p>Make the installer package executable <i>(replace &#8216;hplip-x.x.x.run&#8217; with the real package name in below commands)<\/i>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">chmod +x hplip-x.x.x.run<\/pre>\n<p>Finally start the installer and follow the onscreen prompts:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">.\/hplip-x.x.x.run<\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">via: <a href=\"http:\/\/hplipopensource.com\/hplip-web\/release_notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">HPLIP release note<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPLIP, HP print, scan and fax drivers for Linux, has recently reached the 3.15.2 release with new Linux distributions support, Python 3 support, and a few bug fixes. For the Python 3 support for HPLIP, there are some limitations: Doesn&#8217;t support Fax Cover Page in Python 3 environments XSane installation failed message on Debian, type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1225,1037],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-hp","tag-hp-print-driver-for-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}