Hplip plugin not found

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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It’s me again. Anyone else had issues with the plugins recently? hp-setup -i just hangs at plugin installation.

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My hplip is working. . . .

Rich :wink:

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Did you try the following. Make sure you update first. Then reinstall hplip using pacman.

sudo pacman -Syu

sudo pacman -S hplip

sudo systemctl restart cups

Then re-register the printer.

sudo hp-setup -i

Edit: Arch intentionally disables built-in HPLIP self-updates. This is why you have to update hplip and make sure the version matches or is up todate.

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thanks for the answer, first thing I tried, I have reinstalled hplip and the plugin package from aur, then restarted, didn’t do anything.

I forgot to write here but on the third hp-setup -i attempt it worked, it didn’t hang during download just at the install. Next time I will try it with sudo.

I really don’t understand why it stops working, the packages weren’t updated between the last time I used it and this time. This is the error it produces, no idea why "cfFilterChain: ghostscript (PID 6732) exited with no errors." previous times it just said filter failed

It’s a good old laser printer hp laserjet 1018, they don’t make the new ones like they used to and they’re expensive af, if you want something at least as good as this old one.

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You are using the package from the AUR. Have you tried installing it from the arch repo using pacman instead of the AUR package?

Edit: Sorry the plugin is in the AUR. Have you tried removing the printer and packages and doing a total reinstall of everything from scratch?

Edit: Also when installing the plugin from the AUR I would using clean build of the package by selecting A for all.

Edit: Myself I would not use the hplip-plugin from the AUR. As far as i know running hpsetup downloads the required plugin and firmware.

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I have tried everything, when the problem appeared I had the plugin package from aur installed, deleted it since.

My main confusion comes from the fact that the packages weren’t updated after the last usage. Until now I though updates for the hplip package broke functionality, but seems like something else too is going on.