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robertspierre
Asked: 2018-03-02 07:43:32 +0800 CST

Cannot compile HPLIP

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I have Ubuntu 17.10. My kernel version is 4.14.21-041421-generic. I have downloaded HPLIP 3.17.11 run file from the website. Unfortunately I am unable to compile it. After running the .run file, it starts ./configure, which throws an error regarding net-snmp.

In particular, these are the last lines of configure:

checking for cups ppd install... no
checking for foomatic-rip-hplip install... no
checking for qt5... no
checking for qt4... yes
checking for qt3... no
checking for policykit... no
checking for host machine platform... x86_64
checking for CRYPTO_free in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: cannot find net-snmp support (or --disable-network-build)

SNMP is installed:

snmp is already the newest version (5.7.3+dfsg-1.7ubuntu1).

and libsnmp-dev is also installed (version 5.7.3).

compiling printing hp hplip snmp

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Two moments here

    1. hplip-gui is well-packaged on 17.10 - you will get 3.17.7, you can install this version with:

      sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

    2. If you need to compile this package you should do the following:

      enable source code repositories in software-properties-gtk then get build-dependencies

      sudo apt-get build-dep hplip-gui

      and then run ./configure, make and so on.

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  2. hplip has multiple dependencies like libsnmp, libcups, libusb, libdbus-1. Make sure that you install all of these before running ./configure. If you have all these, the installation runs smoothly.

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