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Distro set to: Ubuntu 16.04
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SECURITY PACKAGES
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AppArmor is installed.
AppArmor protects the application from external intrusion attempts making the application secure
Would you like to have this installer install the hplip specific policy/profile (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ? y
RUNNING PRE-INSTALL COMMANDS
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OK
RUNNING HPLIP LIBS REMOVE COMMANDS
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None
OK
RUNNING SCANJET DEPENDENCY COMMANDS
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sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python-pip (Scanjet-depend step 1)
sudo pip install --upgrade pip (Scanjet-depend step 2)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libleptonica-dev (Scanjet-depend step 3)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes tesseract-ocr (Scanjet-depend step 4)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libtesseract-dev (Scanjet-depend step 5)
sudo -H pip install tesserocr (Scanjet-depend step 6)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes libzbar-dev (Scanjet-depend step 7)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python-zbar (Scanjet-depend step 8)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python-opencv (Scanjet-depend step 9)
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes python-pypdf2 (Scanjet-depend step 10)
sudo -H pip install imutils (Scanjet-depend step 11)
sudo -H pip install pypdfocr (Scanjet-depend step 12)
sudo -H pip install scikit-image (Scanjet-depend step 13)
sudo -H pip install scipy (Scanjet-depend step 14)
OK
PRE-BUILD COMMANDS
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OK
BUILD AND INSTALL
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Running './configure --with-hpppddir=/usr/share/ppd/HP --libdir=/usr/lib --prefix=/usr --enable-qt4 --disable-qt5 --enable-doc-build --disable-cups-ppd-install --disable-foomatic-drv-install --disable-libusb01_build --disable-foomatic-ppd-install --disable-hpijs-install --disable-class-driver --disable-udev_sysfs_rules --disable-policykit --enable-cups-drv-install --enable-hpcups-install --enable-network-build --enable-dbus-build --enable-scan-build --enable-fax-build --enable-apparmor_build'
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Command completed successfully.
Running 'make clean'
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Command completed successfully.
Running 'make'
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error: 'make' command failed with status code 2