No HPLIP GUI for Rocky Linux 9?

microlinux · January 20, 2025, 3:00pm

Hi,

I just upgraded my workstation from Rocky Linux 8 to Rocky Linux 9. My printer is a battered HP OfficeJet. I installed hplip and I’m surprised that there is no GUI for HPLIP, as there was in recent versions of Rocky Linux (and CentOS before that) ? This is quite the regression.

iwalker · January 20, 2025, 3:03pm

Never used the hplip gui purely because I can do everything in the cups configuration - be it via the web browser, or via the Gnome/Cinnamon GUI app for printers.

Since Rocky is based on RHEL, which I’ve mentioned many times, it would probably be best complaining to Red Hat about the fact they removed it. It does exist in Fedora though.

microlinux · January 20, 2025, 4:08pm

After a bit of RTFM and experimenting, the text-based installer works fine:

github.com/kikinovak/daily

notes/hplip-rocky9.md

main

# HPLIP sous Rocky Linux 9

*Écrit le 20 janvier 2025*

Installer HPLIP :

```
# dnf install -y hplip
```

> Le paquet `hplip` ne fournit plus d'interface graphique sous Rocky Linux 9.

Installer le plugin :

```
$ hp-plugin
```

Pour configurer une imprimante réseau, il suffit de fournir son adresse IP en
argument à `hp-setup` :

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iwalker · January 20, 2025, 5:28pm

You could build the GUI hplip from a Fedora source rpm with mock, but then it would probably need all the other hplip packages rebuilding too along with it.

mxdyeah · January 23, 2025, 7:18am

From a user in China, I’m having this issue as well.