On 13-11-2020 07:21, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get HPLIP isnstalled and fully running on Beowulf?
>
> hp-info works, with a gui interface.
>
> hp-levels works on the command-line from a terminal.
>
> hp-testpage brings up a gui and prints the testpage from there.
>
> hp-toolbox is missing its soft link to /usr/share/hplip/toolbox.py. 
> When I create the link and try to run it, I get the following output:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
> HP Device Manager ver. 15.0
>
> Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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.
>
> error: Unable to load DBus libraries. Please check your installation
> and try again.
> error: Please upgrade your python installation to the latest available
> version.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I have Python v3.7 installed, which should be fine since the script
> calls for python3 (which links to python3.7 on my machine).  I don't
> know what it wants installed as far as DBus is concerned.
>
> Primarily, what I need is to check ink levels and general status, and
> that does work from the command line, but it would be more convenient
> if hp-toolbox worked, giving me GUI access to all of its functionality.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
> Marc
>
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Most likely you have to install python3-dbus 1.2.8-3 (see
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-dbus)

Grtz

Nick