Comment 25 for bug 132670

Nope, tried that,

dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}\n' hplip
prints:
2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5

and removing my symlink causes the problem to resurface.

I tried

sudo aptitude purge hplip hplip-gui
sudo aptitude install hplip hplip-gui

and it doesn't change anything.

Are you sure /usr/lib/libnetsnmp.so.9 does not exist on your system?

It is strange I seem to be the only one affected by this...
Last thing I tried:

sudo locate -u
locate cupsext

This returns

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cupsext.la
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cupsext.so
/usr/lib/python-support/hplip/python2.5/cupsext.so
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/cupsext.so

Purging deletes the last two and I manually deleted (renamed) the other two, to ensure a clean environment before reinstalling.
But no, the same thing still happens.