HPLIP toolbox won't start in Debian Etch, Lenny
I am using Debian Etch, Lenny. I tried to open 'HPLIP toolbox'; but the toolbox never appears.
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See if you can get a meaningful error message by opening a terminal and starting the program with this command:
/usr/share/hplip/toolbox -------------------- Steve Stites |
edhe@hebrews:~$ usr/share/hplip/toolbox
bash: usr/share/hplip/toolbox: No such file or directory edhe@hebrews:~$ su Password: hebrews:/home/edhe# usr/share/hplip/toolbox bash: usr/share/hplip/toolbox: No such file or directory hebrews:/home/edhe# dpkg -l | grep HP ii hpijs 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive ii hplip 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP) ii hplip-data 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files |
Error message
edhe@hebrews:/usr/share/hplip$ ls
align.py dat2drv.py hplip-install makecopies.py prnt systray.py base data hpssd.py makeuri.py probe.py testpage.py check.py fab.py info.py pcard scan timedate.py clean.py fax __init__.py plugin.py scan.py toolbox.py colorcal.py firmware.py installer plugins sendfax.py ui copier hpaio.desc levels.py print.py setup.py unload.py edhe@hebrews:/usr/share/hplip$ file toolbox.py toolbox.py: a python script text executable edhe@hebrews:/usr/share/hplip$ ./toolbox.py HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.6b) 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. |
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Check to see if you have a package called python-qt3 installed.
----------------------- Steve Stites |
edhe@hebrews:~$ dpkg -l | grep HP
ii hpijs 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive ii hplip 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP) ii hplip-data 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files ii hplip-dbg 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - debugging in ii hplip-doc 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - documentatio ii hplip-gui 2.8.6.b-3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilitie Package memaid-pyqt * etch (stable) (misc): memorization tool with optimal question scheduling 0.2.5-2: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc Package pyqt-tools * etch (stable) (interpreters): pyuic and pylupdate for Qt3 3.16-1.2: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc Package pyqt4-dev-tools * etch (stable) (python): Development tools for PyQt4 4.0.1-5: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc Problem The package memaid-pyqt only exists in etch-stable, but I am using etch-testing |
I already have python-qt3 installed
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A python file will not work with the command './toolbox.py' The command is 'python /usr/share/hplip/toolbox.py' .... |
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