[scribus] HP2055 Install Printer on Linux

[Matt Miller]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, at 08:57, Silvain Dupertuis wrote:
> Hello Matt,
> 
> I have installed several HP printers on Linux Ubuntu with ease.
> I never had to install a PPD file - although the option to install a 
> PPD is present.
> It seems to me that Debian should be similar.

Well, I'm actually using WSL/Debian, that is, Debian as a Windows app via Windows Subsystem for Linux.  It works almost like Debian on bare metal or as a true VM, but there are some differences.  It seems that one problem is that the Linux dbus facility doesn't work properly under WSL, and the hp-setup utility installed by hplip uses dbus.  So, without more digging/hacking it looks like I'll need to print from my Windows host.
 
> Can you find the HP Device Manager in your software and see what it 
> says about your printer?
> (It is installed by hplip)
> 
> Sorry I can say more from a distance.
> 
> By the way, I always extract PDF files from Scribus and then print the PDF.
> It is safer and saves paper...

Yeah, I have been printing this way, but I found myself wanting to do a quick print preview from Scribus on Linux, so I started down the road of installing my printer on Linux.  I then ran into the dbus problem described above.

So, thanks for the advice, but I think this is a WSL limitation for me at this point.  No big deal, though.
 
> Silvain
> 
> Le 22.03.21 à 15:41, Matt Miller a écrit :
> > This is a bit off-topic, but, for printing from Scribus I have an HP2055dn, which I see from the Scribus documentation is actually a recommended printer.  I can print fine from Windows, but I can't install the printer in Linux.  It seems the missing component is the PPD file.  I installed HP’s hplip utility and it detects the printer, but then it can't install the printer because it needs the correct PPD file.  I haven't found where to get this file, either from HP or from my Linux distro, which is Debian.
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