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tarun.hellknight

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From: India

Registered: 2010-11-30

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[SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

I've done everything but I can't installed 1018 LaserJet on my system..

I even install python2 and changed the syntax of hp-setup script from

 /usr/bin/env python

to

 /usr/bin/enc python2

... It still doesn't  works.. gives me following error

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.11.1 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................
  File "./plugin_install.py", line 78
    except ImportError, e:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I tried to install the foo2zjs driver, but it failed to compile saying that dc is missing, install dc.. Can you tell me which dc is it referring to?

I'm really tired to boot Windows everytime I want to print anything..

Last edited by tarun.hellknight (2011-02-19 04:58:25)

Damnshock

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

Why don't you simply use cups?

localhost:631

On your browser and try from there

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

use foo2zjs in aur. Sometimes the formware doesnt get uploaded to the printer correctly (via an udev rule) so use this "cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1018.dl > /dev/usb/lp0"

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tarun.hellknight

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

Trying foo2zjs right now.. localhost:631 doesn't works either.. I think that the firmware doesn't gets loaded into the printer..

dobbs

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Registered: 2010-05-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

Is cups in your daemons list (rc.conf)?

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tarun.hellknight

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

Yeah.. cups is in the daemons lists.. it runs in background though.. installation from yaourt fails too.. some kind of md5 checksum error..

tarun.hellknight

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Registered: 2010-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing HP LaserJet 1018

Solved it.. did a clean install of foo2zjs from yaourt.. then I had to blacklist the usblp module in /etc/rc.conf file.. that's it.. thanks everyone..