On Sun 28 Jan 2018 at 17:11:49 +0100, Reinhard John wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:15:55 +0000 Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat 27 Jan 2018 at 16:09:32 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > > Look for "AUTH_TYPES" and change > > > > > > 'debian':'su' > > > > > > to > > > > > > 'debian':'sudo' > > > > I forgot to mention: reports of success are welcome. > > > > Regards, > > > > Brian. > > > > > > I removed two dependencies to test the proposed workaround. Besides: The > correct path of the file is /usr/share/hplip/base/password.py. > Now the hp-doctor asked for the sudoer´s password. But: the installation of > the missing dependencies failed. > > > ENTER SUDO PASSWORD > > ------------------- > > Please enter the sudoer (reinhard)'s password: > > Do you want to update repository and Install missing/incompatible > > packages. (a=install all*, c=custom_install, s=skip):a > > Updating repository > > ------------------- > > Installing Missing/Incompatible packages > > ---------------------------------------- > > cmd =libssl-dev > > error: Failed to install 'libssl-dev' package, please install manually. > > cmd =libsane-dev > > error: Failed to install 'libsane-dev' package, please install manually. > > Do you think this error results of a follow-up configuration problem in > another file? > > I will send a bug report to the hplip developers. If there are any solutions > I will post them here.
Success, then; you do not need a root password. Thanks for the testing and the path correction. I can see no reason why you would need those two files to print or scan. Forget about them. Cheers, Brian.