hplip - problem with scanning on HP LaserJet Printer / Scanner. (solved)

[Peter Flynn]

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Thanks for the info. This is quite common: developers, especially 
corporate developers, and even HP, use packages they believe will be 
commonplace, but the open source community can change package names or 
even make packages unavailable suddenly without knowing that they are 
still needed by external developers. Communication isn't always all it 
could be.

Peter

On 25/04/2020 20:03, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Briefly: HP LaserJet M1132MFP On Ubuntu  20.04. It would print but not 
> scan. It now does both.
> 
> Basically, I've been working on this all afternoon. I've been running 
> hp-check, to see what packages might be missing and, after numerous runs 
> of hp-check and installing packages via "sudo apt install", there are 
> some packages it complains are incompatible, and some it complains that 
> are missing that I was unable to find:-
> 
> _Required package dependencies_
> Incompatible :- 'libcups2'' and 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf'
> Missing 'python3-pyqt4'
> 
> _Optional package Dependencies_
> Missing:- 'python3-dbus.mainloop.qt'
> 
> The packages marked "Missing" are those reported by hp-check as missing 
> and I am unable to find to install.
> 
> However, despite those problems, scanning has just started working. 
> Printing still works :)
> 
> At the moment I don't know for sure what got scanning going again.  But 
> I thought I'd pass this info on in case someone else has this problem.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
> Ian
> 
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