I have an old hp 1025 colour laser printer. It has some kind of proprietary driver software.

I installed hplip. Something has gone badly wrong with hplip and its updating process.

I want to remove it. I know there are some threads about this here, but purge fails:


I found this. But I just get the same errors each time I try any of this.

I'm getting a 100 million errors every time I upgrade.

How to get rid of hplip?? Summer holiday is coming, if need be, I will reinstall!

Some of a long long list of Errors:

Since /usr/share/hplip/ui5 is missing, how about creating it and trying again?

You might run into other problems, but at least it would be a first step.

EDIT: Suggestions how to delete broken or incomplete packages: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...-when-it-fails.

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Well, I cleared up this problem, caused another.

I went to the hplip developers page, downloaded the latest hplip-3.19.5.run

It takes a long time to install all kinds of stuff. Then hp's own hp-setup program cannot find the printer, it does not work!

If I enter lsusb in bash, I can see the hp printer immediately.

RANT: Why does hp make life do difficult?

In our little office at work we have an Epson printer/scanner and a Brother printer. When I install a new version of Ubuntu or Fedora on my work computer or laptop, I plug them in, Ubuntu or Fedora sees them, installs them, says, "Do you want to print a test page?" Both work in seconds!

I have been able to make the hp printer work before, but I can't remember how, apart from running hp-setup

you should know already "it does not work" is not a good post. Please post what's happened. Did you check the logs already?

Have you tried "force"

I have never done this, so don't know what to expect.

And, since this is for office, perhaps this time you should document

From memory: (I'm 66 years old and my memory isn't what it once was):

go to the printer and from it's control panel find the setting "easy-setup" and make sure it is disabled.

Install the proprietary binary blob required for your "Winprinter" by opening a terminal and running "hp-setup"

Then run hplip. It should install the front-end linux driver for your printer.

Too old?

By any chance did you start here?

1. hp-linux-imaging and printing (The download does originate from SourceForge.)

2. After down loading, follow these instructions: Installer Walkthrough

PS: I recently installed our networked HP printer under Mint 19.1. I did not use hplip. Mint successfully found the network printer and installed it. So you may not need hplip.

Another tidbit. Our network printer is browser accessible at http://192.168.1.217/. The printer may install on a different URL for you.

@pan64

If you run hplip-3.19.5.run it first uninstalls the older version (which solved my original problem), then installs loads of stuff. Takes a while. Then it tells you, you have to run hp-setup, "Do you want to run hp-setup now?".

hp-setup cannot find the usb printer. That is the problem, so it never completes.

lsusb clearly shows the printer.

I tried a reboot. I tried running hp-setup as sudo.

I have managed to get this installed before, but I cannot remember how I tricked it into working.

Basically, how can it not find the usb printer, when I can see it clearly with lsusb??

@Steve R Thanks for the link. Installer Walkthrough Step 12 fails. It cannot see the printer. I tried rebooting.

hp-setup just cannot see the printer.

why does hp make this so hard? Other printers install on Linux very easily. I would not buy another hp printer.

Getting back to your original question. Can you let hplip simply do the uninstall and then just terminate the install part?

Have your tried to add the printer under: System System Settings --> Printers --> Add?

Tried to add the printer from System Settings, but, because hp needs proprietary software, which is not available to Ubuntu, the printer doesn't work.

hp-setup is supposed to handle that. It fails, for me at least.

Too late to stop at the uninstall stage. Already installed all the latest stuff. The older version is gone!

if the printer is not recognized: this printer is quite old, or just not supported by the software you want to install. Or just it is a hardware problem (wire, usbport, whatever...).

No, before I installed the latest hplip.run, it was working, but hplip was causing all the package problems.

The printer still works from this old laptop. Just won't work now from my newer laptop which I use for work.

The problem is hp-setup.

so probably try an earlier/other version: https://launchpad.net/hplip

Color LaserJet ProCP1020 Series Getting Started Guide

I assume that you have already looked here, but just in case.

Note that the initial installation setup requires a USB cable.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm reluctant to install an older version of hplip, that is what caused the package problems.

When I try installing the printer, I first plug it in with a usb cable. Linux knows it is there. hp-setup just can't see it.

Perhaps a newer version of hplip will solve the problem. I have other printers I can use.

God forbid, but I could even use the gf's Windows computer, if I really need to print on that old laser, the hp 1025 works fine from there!