On 11/13/20 12:09 AM, dng@??? wrote:
> 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
>
HPLIP installed it automatically, as a dependency.

Marc