HP printer + PureOS

Software PureOS
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How best to print to an HP laser printer on PureOS? I use hplip on another distro (and package manager) but not sure how to go about that on PureOS.

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Therefore this install process should be, as well, easy one (like 1,2,3):
sudo apt update
apt list hplip
sudo apt install hplip

As just checked on my Librem 5, all packages needed there are indeed available within PureOS.

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It turns out it was already installed and I only needed to run ‘hp-plugin -i’ to download and install the required binary plugin.

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How do you check the HPLIP version after running those three commands?

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Both apt list hplip -a (for all available) and apt info hplip will show current version number.

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Thanks, btw how do you update the HPLIP version?

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Once particular package installed sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade will take care of installing the most recent package version, PureOS Byzantium related hplip version.

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Is it “sudo hp-plugin -i” ?

The reason I asked, is that I am planing on buying a HP Printer for my Librem 14 PureOS Laptop.

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‘sudo hp-plugin -i’ will download and install the required binary plugin which is required each time you upgrade hplip.

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