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<li><a href="../../tech_docs/index.html" title="">Technical Documentation</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.linuxprinting.org/" title="Resources to help with printing under free operating systems like GNU/Linux">www.linuxprinting.org</a></li>
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<div class="document" id="installation-step-3-download-and-install-hplip-software">
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<h1 class="title">Installation - Step 3 - Download and install HPLIP software</h1>
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<p>If you already have the latest HP printing software installed, then proceed to <a class="reference" href="/install/step4/index.html">Step 4: Add the Printer</a>.</p>
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<p>If you already have the latest HP printing software installed, then proceed to <a class="reference" href="../step4/index.html">Step 4: Add the Printer</a>.</p>
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<p>If the HP printing software is not included with your Linux distribution, or you want to ensure that you have the latest version of the software, follow these steps to download and install the HP printing software.</p>
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<p><em>Warning: If you are upgrading HPLIP and HPLIP is already preinstalled with your distribution, or you if you installed HPLIP using an RPM, DEB, or other package, please uninstall the previous version using the method specific for your distribution. If you do not do this, you may have package conflict issues or functionality problems.</em></p>
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<li>Enter this command to navigate to the folder that contains the HPLIP tar file that you downloaded in step 1:</li>
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<p>(for example: $ cd /home/user/documents)</p>
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<p>(for example: cd /home/user/documents)</p>
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<li>Enter this command to extract the driver files from the HPLIP tar file:</li>
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<p>(for example: $ tar xvfz hplip-0.9.tar.gz)</p>
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<p>The files are extracted to a directory named for the HPLIP version (for example, "hplip-0.9").</p>
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<li>Enter this command to navigate to the directory containing the HPLIP files:</li>
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<p>(Example: # cd hplip-0.8)</p>
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<li>Enter this command (for 32-bit only - for 64-bit, skip this step and do step 8):</li>
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
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<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
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<p class="last">Special step required for 64-bit systems.</p>
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<li><strong>IMPORTANT!</strong> For <strong>64-bit</strong> Systems only enter this command:</li>
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# ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
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<p><em>If you are using Ubuntu go to Step 14.</em></p>
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/etc/init.d/hplip restart
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<p><a class="reference" href="../step4/index.html">Proceed to step 4.</a></p>
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<small>Last update: Fri Mar 3 16:45:41 2006</small>
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<small>Last update: Tue Jun 27 14:52:51 2006</small>