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doscervezas

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Registered: 2010-11-02

Posts: 6

HPLIP: "Syntax error: invalid syntax" installing HP LaserJet 1018

I'm trying to install my HP LaserJet 1018 on my new laptop with fresh arch installation. I have installed Cups and hplip, and now run hp-setup to install the proprietary plugin from HP that will load the firmware to the printer. However, I get an error running hp-setup and so the plugin cannot be installed.

* my printer is plugged in and turned on. In the system log, I can see something is recognized
* I run "hp-setup -i" as root
* Specify that the printer is installed on USB, then proceed to download the plugin. This succeeds
* Then it tries to install the plugin, and that is where it fails, with this message:

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| INSTALLING PLUG-IN |
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Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.10.9 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................
  File "./plugin_install.py", line 78
    except ImportError, e:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed

(I don't really know how to do proper formatting on this forum, but the ^ indicating where the error is is on the comma , after ImportError)

Does anyone know what is going wrong? It seems to me that there is an error in the plugin_install.py-file which then makes the installer believe that the pygobject and dbus-python are not installed, but they both are. Also, "hp-check -t" shows that all dependencies are there. Can anyone help me?

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: HPLIP: "Syntax error: invalid syntax" installing HP LaserJet 1018

http://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/

doscervezas

Member

Registered: 2010-11-02

Posts: 6

Re: HPLIP: "Syntax error: invalid syntax" installing HP LaserJet 1018

Thanks for your quick reply! Changed /usr/bin/python to point to /usr/bin/python2, reran hp-setup and now it's working!

amrdarwish

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Registered: 2010-09-29

Posts: 19

Re: HPLIP: "Syntax error: invalid syntax" installing HP LaserJet 1018

Delete the /usr/bin/python file which is just a link to /usr/bin/python3
Change to /usr/bin folder
Create a new link, this time pointing to python 2.7
The commands

rm -rf /usr/bin/python
cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 python

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jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: HPLIP: "Syntax error: invalid syntax" installing HP LaserJet 1018

Please don't necrobump threads: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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