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@nursoda Similar to hplip-minimal. The reason for creating lite is that hplip-minimal has not been updated until August 29, 2024. Now Lite tries not to use patches as much as possible, there is no difference in anything else

As @MarsSeed commented a while ago, the package description (or the pinned comment) should be enhanced. It should state the advantages of using this package instead of hplip or hplip-minimal.

It still doesn't build (same error).

Here's a patch that fixes it:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 4b7ca85..93d08f4 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -14,12 +14,18 @@ provides=('hplip')
 backup=('etc/hp/hplip.conf')
 conflicts=('hplip')
 optdepends=('cups: for printing support' 'system-config-printer')
-source=(https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${_pkgname}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
-sha256sums=('5d7643831893a5e2addf9d42d581a5dbfe5aaf023626886b8762c5645da0f1fb')
+source=(
+  "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${_pkgname}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+  "hplip-pserror-gcc14.patch"
+)
+sha256sums=(
+  "5d7643831893a5e2addf9d42d581a5dbfe5aaf023626886b8762c5645da0f1fb"
+  "SKIP"
+)

 prepare() {
  cd "${_pkgname}-${pkgver}"
- patch -Np1 -i ../../hplip-pserror-gcc14.patch
+ patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/hplip-pserror-gcc14.patch"
 }

 build() {

3.24.4-2 doesn't build:

==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting hplip-3.24.4.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
patch: **** Can't open patch file ../../hplip-pserror-gcc14.patch : No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

Sorry for confusion, missed the flag before. Now it seems even more strange I'm encountering the 'cannot create /usr/lib/libImageProcessor-x86_64.so' error during build.

@drws My remarks about libImageProcessor.so have been taken into account through the additional build flag --disable-imageProcessor-build. The installed package is working fine for me. Even though there are the mentioned errors.

Just tried to build this package and it seems it has issues. build() goes through, but package() encounters a possibly harmless warning, but also two showstopping errors:

libtool: warning: 'libhpmud.la' has not been installed in '/usr/lib'
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/lib/libImageProcessor-x86_64.so': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/ipp-usb/quirks/HPLIP.conf': Permission denied

It seems build scripts want to access root filesystem instead of putting the files into the package.

Also there doesn't seem to be anything taking @0xhtml's comment into account in the PKGBUILD. That finding should probably be addressed too.

Please differentiate the description (i.e., mention briefly how it it is 'lite' compared to repo's hplip).

the following is required to install the libImageProcessor.so library:

install -Dt "${pkgdir}/usr/lib" -m755 prnt/hpcups/libImageProcessor.so

w/o that I got an error trying to print.

Latest hplip package is version 3.22.10