HP LaserJet P1005 driver

UncleIS · October 16, 2011, 4:33pm

Good day! I’m new to Linux and have just installed openSUSE 11.4, downloaded and installed all the updates and now trying to make my HP LaserJet P1005 printer work. But there is a problem: while hp-setup recognizes the printer correctly, it fails to download the plug-in needed to make it work: every time I end up with the following :

Downloading plug-in from: http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.11.5-plugin.run
Receiving digital keys: /usr/bin/gpg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xA59047B9
error:  ERROR: Plug-in file does not match its digital signature.  File may have been corrupted or altered.  Error code: 2

I managed to download the plug-in form HP Linux Imaging and Printing but it had version 3.11.10 instead of 3.11.5 needed, so I couldn’t install it as versions of hplip and the plug-in should be the same. Any help or hint would be appreciated, as I couldn’t find any

martin_helm · October 16, 2011, 4:48pm

Disclaimer: I have no experience with your printer.
You can install hplip 3.11.10 by adding this repository
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_11.4
and then go into yast and search for hplip and change the version to the one
provided by the printing repository.

UncleIS · October 16, 2011, 8:36pm

Thanks a lot! After adding the repo and installing required versions of the packages the plug-in was downloaded and installed without problems

What troubles me is why I couldn’t install hplip out of the repo directly: yast found only hplip-sane 3.11.10, which is for scanning, as far as I understand? It, in its turn, required and downloaded hplip 3.11.10, though yast didn’t find it…

Anyway, it works! Thank you once again for your advice

martin_helm · October 16, 2011, 8:51pm

UncleIS wrote:

>
> Thanks a lot! After adding the repo and installing required versions of
> the packages the plug-in was downloaded and installed without problems
>
>
Glad to hear it works.

> What troubles me is why I couldn’t install hplip out of the repo
> directly: yast found only hplip-sane 3.11.10, which is for scanning, as
> far as I understand? It, in its turn, required and downloaded hplip
> 3.11.10, though yast didn’t find it…
>
Yast does not show you the hplip of that repository directly but just hplip
(and most probably you still had the previous version installed so it showed
that).
When you click on that package you should see a possibility (in the bottom
part of yast) to show the different versions. You can then select the
version you want.

UncleIS · October 16, 2011, 9:09pm

Oh, I didn’t know that, but I’ll know for the future. Thanks!

user · March 17, 2012, 2:31pm

The model number HP Laserjet P1005.

Method 1:
You may refer to the below links and use the troubleshooters. Check if it lists and helps resolve any issues: Open the Printer troubleshooter:
HP LaserJet P1005 Printer - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

Method 2:
You may check if you have the latest drivers installed for the device. You may refer to the below link for getting the latest drivers and check.
HP Laserjet P1005 Driver

Good Luck.