Note: Download the HPLIP tarball in a directory where you would like the HPLIP install directory to be created.
Extract the HPLIP Files
Follow these steps:
- Open a terminal shell.
- Go to the directory where you downloaded the HPLIP tarball.
- Uncompress the tarball:
tar xvfz hplip-3.12.6.tar.gz
- Go into the hplip directory:
cd hplip-3.12.6