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Installing HPLIP in "Linux Backup" distro...

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Hi, I'm interested in getting HPLIP to work in a Iomega Home Media Cloud Edition (NAS like hard drive). It's a very basic linux distribution and runs with an arm processor. I can't install it from PPA (the system just can't handle it) and in the download page its distribution is not present (uname -a: Linux Backup 2.6.31.14 #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 17:02:45 EST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux). I'd like to know if there's a version of HPLIP that can run in this processor/distribution. Thank you...

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Suma Byrappa (suma-byrappa) said : 		#1

Hi,

We are not supporting ARM architecture as of now. However, you can get HPLIP through any of the below options.

1. Most of the leading distro's provide HPLIP for ARM processors in their package download sites. Please check in whichever distro closely matches (or the base of) your distro.

2. HPLIP provides autoconf build tools. You can download HPLIP for any supported Linux distro and configure the HPLIP build for ARM cross compilation and get the HPLIP package for ARM.

Hope this helps you use HPLIP!

Regards,
Suma

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merlin (mrln) said : 		#2

Be aware that you may need the "proprietary plugin" for a printer, that these guys do not provide. So before you start compiling HPLIP, check if your printer needs the plugin. If it does, you won't be able to print from your ARM-Device.

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goutam kodu (goutam-hplip) said : 		#3

Plugin files for ARM are now supported in hplip 3.15.4

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