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hplip package

hp-toolbox is missing PyQt

Bug #430539 reported by Ákos Maróy
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: hplip

when I try to start the hp-toolbox applicaiton, I get:

$ hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.7)
HP Device Manager ver. 14.0

Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard 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: PyQt not installed. GUI not available. Exiting.
warning: Qt/PyQt initialization failed.
error: hp-toolbox requires GUI support. Exiting.

I tried to install python-qt4 after that, but I still get the same error
is some dependency missing from the package?

this is on Ubunut 8.10 64 bit

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Gonzhauser (gonzhauser) wrote :

Install hplip-gui. I believe hp-toolbox belongs there.

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Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy) wrote :

indeed. so it seems there's a dependency shortage in the hplip package...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package hplip - 3.9.8-0ubuntu7

---------------
hplip (3.9.8-0ubuntu7) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/hplip-cups.postinst, debian/hpijs.postinst: Let the hpijs package
    migrate queues for the hpcups driver (hplip-cups package) to the HPIJS
    driver when updating PPDs of existing queues. The hplip-cups package
    does not migrate HPIJS queues any more now. We prefer HPIJS for now as
    hpcups has still problems, especially shifted prints on the back side
    of the sheet (LP: #426826), page size confusion with duplex printing
    (LP: #428588) and borderless printing.
  * debian/patches/kde4-kdesudo-support.dpatch: Try also
    /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu as sudo GUI (LP: #281880).
  * debian/hplip.install, debian/hplip-gui.install: Moved all hp-* utilities
    which do not work in text mode from hplip to hplip-gui (LP: #430539).
  * debian/control: Let hplip recommend hpijs instead of hplip-cups, as this
    is our preferred driver for now. Add to hplip-gui's dependencies
    kdebase-runtime as one of the alternatives to provide a sudo GUI utility
    (LP: #281880). Added versioned depends and conflicts on hplip to hp-gui,
    due to the moving of the GUI-only utilities to hplip-gui.
  * debian/patches/hp-setup-prompt-for-custom-PPD.dpatch: hp-setup did not
    prompt for a custom PPD if the description field of the default PPD is
    empty (LP: #432808).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 3 Sep 2009 19:22:38 +0200

Changed in hplip (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Now all utilities which require the Python GUI are moved to the hplip-gui package. All HP utilities which stay in the hplip package can be run in text mode using the "-i" or "-n" options.

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Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy) wrote :

good to know it's been fixed. as I'm using ubutnu 8.10, probably that's why I'm not getting the update..

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