Sequence of events; Printer was working. Installed update. Printer not longer worked. hplip-cups was not installed, installed it. Might be red herring. Printer still did not work. Installed the printer again and it now works OK. Please note that this is not a USB printer, it is a network printer.
Installed hplip as per request; and...@shuttle:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip [sudo] password for andrew: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: xpdf-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: kdeprint gtklp xpp hplip-gui hplip-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: hplip 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 201kB of archives. After this operation, 754kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main hplip 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1 [201kB] Fetched 201kB in 6s (30.4kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package hplip. (Reading database ... 208903 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hplip (from .../hplip_3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up hplip (3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1) ... Creating/updating hplip user account... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place and...@shuttle:~$ On 20 September 2010 21:37, Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Colin, CUPS does not require HPLIP to work. If hplip is installed, new > print queues are even automatically created with the "usb" backend of > CUPS. The problem here is that the user created a print queue to which > the HPLIP backend got assigned. Then he did an update and this > uninstalled hplip, leaving the queue in a non-working state. > > Andrew Laughton, your hplip package was indeed removed from your system > during the update. Please re-install it with > > sudo apt-get install hplip > > Please report here when there occur problems while reinstalling the > package. > > -- > Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp does not exist! > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636887 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp does not exist! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636887 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
