This document provides instructions for manually installing the Asus Eeepc printer driver software (HPLIP). It involves 4 steps: 1) installing prerequisite packages like gcc and python libraries, 2) downloading the HPLIP tarball, 3) extracting and changing to the HPLIP directory, and 4) configuring HPLIP for installation.

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Manual Build and Install Instructions for Asus Eeepc
Step 1: Installation Prerequisite Steps
Warning
This process is experimental and not fully tested.
View the current Release Notes for additional information on this release.
Note
You will need root access to complete many of the steps while installing HPLIP. If you do not have
root access contact your system admin for assistance.
Step 2: Install Dependency Packages
A. Open a terminal shell.
B. Add/Update your apt repositories.
Add the xandros/debian repositories as per the guide below:
EeeUser Repositories Guide
Enter this command:
sudo apt-get update
C. Install the required dependency packages.
Enter this command: (choose the appropriate command depending on your version)
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libc6 make python-dev libcupsys2-dev cupsys-bsd libusb-dev libtool
libjpeg62-dev libssl-dev libsnmp9-dev python-reportlab libsane-dev libsane
Step 3: Download HPLIP
Note
We recommend that you download the HPLIP tarball to your home or desktop directory.
A. Click here to Download the Regular Tarball
B. Go to the directory where you downloaded the HPLIP tarball.
Example:
cd ~/Desktop
C. Uncompress the tarball.
Enter this command:
tar xvfz hplip-3.14.6.tar.gz
This will create a directory with the same name as the tarball file.
D. Change your working directory to the hplip-3.14.6 directory.
Example:
cd hplip-3.14.6
Step 4: Configure HPLIP for installation
A. This step configures the development environment and checks that your system is ready to install
HPLIP.
For specific information on using ./configure and the different options please go here. Also reference
your distro documentation and configuration for additional information on which tags are relevant.
Enter this command (select the appropriate command depending on your system configuration):