I'm having trouble trying to use my HP LaserJet 1018 printer. When I run hp-setup it detects the printer connected to the USB port and downloads the required plug-in. However, when the plug-in is downloaded and I click on "Next", the following message appears:
The device you are trying to setup requires a binary plug-in. Some functionalities may not work as expected without plug-ins.
Please run 'hp-plugin' as normal user to install plug-ins.
Visit http://hplipopensource.com for more infomation.
Despite it stated the plug-in was successfully installed.
Here's what appears on the terminal when running hp-setup:
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Creating directory plugin_tmp
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.18.12 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................................
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Installer ver. 3.0
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.
Plug-in version: 3.18.12
Installed HPLIP version: 3.18.12
Number of files to install: 55
note: Using PyQt5
Done.
Plug-in installation successful
Done.
error: The device you are trying to setup requires a binary plug-in. Some functionalities may not work as expected without plug-ins. Please run 'hp-plugin' as normal user to install plug-ins. Visit http://hplipopensource.com for more infomation.
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2458, resource id: 13105448, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0
Done.
I tried to run hp-plugin like the error message said, and it downloaded the plug-in but running hp-setups afterwards asks to download the plug-in again. And hp-plugin doesn't specify where the plug-in was downloaded so I cannot add it manually. Here's what appears on the terminal when running hp-plugin:
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$ hp-plugin
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
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.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
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.
Checking for network connection...
Downloading plug-in from:
Receiving digital keys: [...]
Creating directory plugin_tmp
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.18.12 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................................
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.12)
Plugin Installer ver. 3.0
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.
Plug-in version: 3.18.12
Installed HPLIP version: 3.18.12
Number of files to install: 55
note: Using PyQt5
Done.
Plug-in installation successful
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1210, resource id: 13225182, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1335, resource id: 13229729, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0
Done.
I found that someone else had the same issue, but the solution provided is to use the foo2zjs free software printer driver and I would like to use HPLIP to work with the printer.
I also found another possible solution here, but I can't create the symbolic links the user said because the /usr/lib64/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane directory already exists, so I can't make it a symlink pointing to /usr/lib64/sane.
How can I get the printer to work?
I'm using Debian 10.1 Buster under amd64 architecture. If it matters, I'm using the MATE desktop environment.
Thanks in advance.