ok. So I am having the same issue. I just bought myself a fancy new printer from a liquidation auction. HP LaserJet MFP mf575 for a steal and brought it home. INstalled it on Windows and Ubuntu in like 30 seconds.
Tried to install it on My main laptop which is Manjaro 20.2.1 with the HP Utility and had to pick a ppd file. I noticed the hige list of ppd files were all .ppd.gz so i copied I tried to extract it but no luck so i copied the .ppd.gz file to my home directory and extracted it and tried to select the extracted .ppd but same thing as above, it just goes right back to ppd file not found eventhough i just clicked on it…
So I decided to just install via printers instead of the HP Device Manager. When i click on “Printers” I get a message that says Print Service is Unavailable, Bad file descriptor. So i googled it and followed the directions here:
but no luck.
I went to HP’s website and downloaded the installer from here:
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/release_notes
but when i try to install it it cannot find any of the dependencies including CUPS:
DEPENDENCY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Running ‘sudo pacman -S --noconfirm libcups2’
Please wait, this may take several minutes…
error: Command failed. Re-try #1…
Running ‘sudo pacman -S --noconfirm libcups2’
Please wait, this may take several minutes…
error: Command failed. Re-try #2…
Running ‘sudo pacman -S --noconfirm libcups2’
Please wait, this may take several minutes…
error: Command failed. Re-try #3…
Running ‘sudo pacman -S --noconfirm libcups2’
Please wait, this may take several minutes…
error: Package install command failed with error code 1
note: Some packages may not get installed on python3 due to distro incompatibilites
note: Please check for more information at http://hplipopensource.com/node/369
Would you like to retry installing the missing package(s) (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ?
and after retrying and re-running it eventually fails saying to manually install these:
RE-CHECKING DEPENDENCIES
error: A required dependency ‘cups (CUPS - Common Unix Printing System)’ is still missing.
error: A required dependency ‘python3-pyqt4 (PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x))’ is still missing.
error: Installation cannot continue without these dependencies.
error: Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer.
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So that brought me to this thread, and this message…
Should i delete this message and open a new thread?