hp-doctor(1)

💖 NAME 💖

hp-doctor — the Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility, bestie 🩺✨ (yes that's the actual spelling in the manual, we don't gatekeep, we just report)

This page lives in the User Manuals manual, section 1 — so if you're like "where do I even find this", that's your iykyk 📖

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🩷 DESCRIPTION 🩷

okay so real talk: hp-doctor is the tool that checks on things. Specifically it goes looking for:

• deprecated stuff 👀
• plug-in situations
• dependencies
• queues
• permission issues

…and then it hands you self diagnose steps. Like a glow-up plan but for your printing setup 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hp-doctor [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no positional args, just options 🫶

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🦋 MODE 🦋

Run in interactive mode:

• -i or --interactive — this is the default, so if you just run hp-doctor with nothing else, congrats, you're already in interactive mode, main character energy 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h or --help — this help information. the "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• -l<level> or --logging=<level> — Set the logging level. <level> can be one of: none, info*, error, warn, debug — and info is the default (that's what the * is doing there, it's marking the default, iconic behavior ⭐)
• -g — Run in debug mode. same as option: -ldebug. so -g is literally just -ldebug wearing a little nickname 🎀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux. so yeah, HP made it, for Linux, for HP printers. no cap 🔥

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🌈 REPORTING BUGS 🌈

The HPLIP Launchpad.net site https://launchpad.net/hplip is available to get help, report bugs, make suggestions, discuss the HPLIP project or otherwise contact the HPLIP Team.

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie, take it to Launchpad 🫶 that's literally what it's there for

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, L.P.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

not me reading "ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" in all caps and feeling it in my soul 😭 it's free software tho, so you can share it, just read the COPYING file for the deets

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and that's the whole page, babe ✨ this was hp-doctor(1) from Linux, version 1.0, dated hp-doctor(1) — okay the date is literally just the same as the title, we're not gonna pretend otherwise 💀 anyway ilysm, go diagnose yourself (the printer, diagnose the printer) 💖🌸🦋