{"id":66,"date":"2021-01-04T02:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:28:51","slug":"installing-hplip-on-pop-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/installing-hplip-on-pop-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing HPlip on Pop! OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HPCM2320nfMFP.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69\" width=\"198\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HPCM2320nfMFP.jpeg 396w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HPCM2320nfMFP-244x300.jpeg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><figcaption>My HP CM2320nf MFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Usually when I need to install my HP color laser printer onto one of my desktops, I have to go the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/developers.hp.com\/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing\" target=\"_blank\">HP Linux Imaging and Printing website<\/a> and download and install HPLIP. But downloading the files and making the installer work has been a royal pain for Pop OS. Luckily, the System 76 Pop OS website has an <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.system76.com\/articles\/add-a-printer-pop\/\" target=\"_blank\">article HERE<\/a><\/strong> to show how easy it is to install using apt install.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Piece of advice before running:<\/strong> set the password for user root if you have not done so already. The hp-setup tool will ask for a user and password of an account with root capabilities to install. In Ubuntu and Pop OS this is not set normally, and using my credentials would fail. So, run the command: <strong>sudo passwd root<\/strong> and set a password for root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SetRoot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" width=\"509\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SetRoot.png 509w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SetRoot-300x46.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><figcaption>Setting password for root user.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, when you run hp-setup and are prompted for root user and password, the install can continue successfully after you enter root and the password you assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"476\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HPDeviceManagerRoot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HPDeviceManagerRoot.png 476w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HPDeviceManagerRoot-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I need to install my HP color laser printer onto one of my desktops, I have to go the HP Linux Imaging and Printing website and download and install HPLIP. But downloading the files and making the installer work has been a royal pain for Pop OS. Luckily, the System 76 Pop OS\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/installing-hplip-on-pop-os\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}