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Asked: 2013-10-23 11:09:08 +0800 CST

working with command hp-plugin for printer

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I am having a scanner/printer which needs hp-plugin, it is installed,some how I have forgotten what went wrong during installation because when I try to run 

sudo hp-plugin

I get following error

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-plugin requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Try using interactive (-i) mode.

when I am running with 

sudo hp-plugin --qt3

I get error

error: option --qt3 not recognized

What should I do now?

12.04

1 Answers

  1. Try sudo apt-get install hplip-gui or sudo apt-get install python-qt4.

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