On Fri 02 Aug 2019 at 15:20:41 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Brian wrote: > > > So - you had the plugin installed already! > > yes, but as I already said, on my desktop, it gives: > > error: Unable to open /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock lock file. > > and on my laptop, it opens a window saying: > > the driver plugin for HPLIP 3.16.11 appears to already be installed. > do you want to download and reinstall the plug-in? > > which is more user friendly.
You are assuming the first message (buster) is the equivalent of the second message (stretch). I do not think they are connected. On my unstable the lock file is put in $HOME/.hplip. There is also no top level directory "/data". -- Brian.