OK went to that site - ran hp-check -r in terminal - got this result
john@john-Aspire-T180:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for john:
root@john-Aspire-T180:/home/john# hp-check -r
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.7)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.3
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.
Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling
the
HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper
dependencies
are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro
supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball
has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode
will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).
Saving output in log file: hp-check.log
Initializing. Please wait...
---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------
Basic system information:
Linux john-Aspire-T180 3.0.0-30-generic #5trisquel1 SMP Thu Jan 24 01:37:58
UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Distribution:
unknown 0.0
Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.7.2 installed
Checking PyQt 4.x version...
error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD!
Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
warning: Version: (cups-config) Not available. Unable to determine installed
version of CUPS.)
error_log is set to level: warn
Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.84.0
------------------------
| RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
------------------------
Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP
functionality may not function properly.
Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language
interpreter and previewer...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for
commandline scanning with hp-scan)...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make
sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify
Desktop notifications...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax
functionality...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP
functionality may not function properly.
Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...
OK, found.
Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP
functionality may not function properly.
Checking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP
functionality may not function properly.
----------------------
| HPLIP INSTALLATION |
----------------------
Currently installed HPLIP version...
HPLIP 3.11.7 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.
Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.
[hplip]
version=3.11.7
[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hplip
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc/HTML
icon=no
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
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=3.11.7
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=yes
hpijs-only-build=no
lite-build=no
udev-acl-rules=yes
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no
Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
# hplip.state - HPLIP runtime persistent variables.
[plugin]
installed=0
eula=0
Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
error: Could not access file: No such file or directory
--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------
No devices found.
---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------
lpstat
------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: No destinations added.
----------------------
| SANE CONFIGURATION |
----------------------
'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip'...
OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up.
Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...
error: scanimage not found.
---------------------
| PYTHON EXTENSIONS |
---------------------
Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...
OK, found.
Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...
OK, found.
Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
OK, found.
Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
OK, found.
-----------------
| USB I/O SETUP |
-----------------
Checking for permissions of USB attached printers...
HP Device 0xac11 at 001:004:
Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_2510_series?serial=CN26D2325C05QX
error: Unsupported model: Deskjet_2510_series
---------------
| USER GROUPS |
---------------
root
error: User needs to be member of group 'lp' to enable print, scan & fax.
error: User needs to be member of group 'lpadmin' to manage printers.
-----------
| SUMMARY |
-----------
error: 6 errors and/or warnings.
Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html
Done.
root@john-Aspire-T180:/home/john#
