NO HPLIP UPDATE (By NOW??)

Legacy Netrunner 14.x
1

I have the HP All In One Office Laserjet Printer: Laser Jet Pro MFP M225dw
and this OS does not find my printer. So I tried manually looking for it and
it is NO where to be found in the list!

WHY haven’t you updated the HPLIP by Now??

2

Netrunner 14 is an LTS release based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, this means that hplip would need to be updated upstream.

However, that printer needs a binary plugin (firmware) installed to work, open a console and type:

hp-plugin

Select download and install the plugin from HP.

Reference: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_pro_mfp_m225dw.html

3

I installed it. But what is this suppose to do? Cause I went back and searched for it again in the install list and it still is not there.

I tried downloading HPLIP and installing manually but I got to the part where it asks for the Super User pass:

ENTER ROOT/SUPERUSER PASSWORD

Please enter the root/superuser password:
error: Password incorrect. 2 attempt(s) left.
Please enter the root/superuser password:
error: Password incorrect. 1 attempt(s) left.
Please enter the root/superuser password:

This is where I am at right now and have no idea WHY it’s not taking my password. Is there some special secret Super User password, I should know about?

EDIT: Also, what OS and version do I select? It does not offer 14.2 so I selected Ubuntu version 14.10 - Is this right?

4

Well, I got past the password thing by using sudo prior to the line of data entered into the konsole.

But then I came to dependecy not found “libusb”. Tried to apt-get it and not found.

Though I looked for it in synaptic and found it IS installed. Now what? If I can’t get my printer to work,
this is not a viable OS for me.

5

Try following this tutorial from the hplip web site:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/ubuntu.html

Note: First remove the hplip package installed from the repositories.

6

I am trying to go thru those instructions and got stopped here:

D. Change your working directory to the hplip-3.15.11 directory.

Example:

cd hplip-3.15.11

This is what I get when attempting a dir chg:
bash: cd: hplip-3.15.11: Permission denied
I don’t get why switching into a directory would be denied.
But then again… I’m getting permission denied on several things

I have tried getting into the folder a few different ways and am denied every time.

Now other things are going wacky! I can’t sit and mess with this. I need a working OS.
Take care