[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#605589: Subject: hplip: download of plug-in fails -> can not install printer

[Federico González Nicolini]

Mark,

There is a a directory "/var/lib/hp" where the plugin installation 
process writes data about installed plugin. The install plugin success 
with out complain about the lack of the directory and it does not write 
the plugin installation information. Other process search for this data 
to know if the appropriate plugin was installed.

I've read* that directory was generated by the make Makefile but it's 
unused (no files in it) until an installation plugin is executed, and 
there is  a problem in the packaging process that don't package that 
directory.

mkdir /var/lib/hp, solves the problem, with my HP LaserJet 1020 in a 
debian wheezy.

I think that it can be run in the post install; if it's hard to search 
why that empty directory was not packaged.

* I've found it in a google search and they talk about an OpenSuse 
distribution.

Federico