System can't see printer HP LJ P1102w

There may be 2 problems to install this kind of printer, at least i did encounter

1e
Hp-setup could not detect my printer P1102W.
The reason was that the file models.dat contained the wrong name:
Hp_laserjet_professional_p_1102w instead of
Hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w
This file is located at /usr/share/hplip/data/models

It seems that other printer names are also misspelled in this file, they all seems to have the extra underscore in the name…it looks intentional?

2e

The required plugin could not be installed

This can be resolved by two simple commands:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/x86_64-linux-gnu

Maybe the maintainer of this driver can fix those problems as many users face the same problem over and over again?

at least for me this makes the printer found, installed and working.

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