--- hplip-3.11.10/base/pkit.py~	2011-10-02 05:06:15.000000000 +0200
+++ hplip-3.11.10/base/pkit.py	2011-11-30 19:07:51.344925378 +0100
@@ -318,7 +318,28 @@
             log.debug("shutdown: %s" % str(e))
             return False
 
-
+def binaryPatch(f):
+    try
+        # file, md5sum, replace content at address with specified byte
+        patches = { 'lj-x86_32.so' : { 'md5': '30bdf8c844508a53d80362f9eba670c5',
+                                       # https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/666780
+                                       'replace' : [ (0xA068, 0x10) ]
+                } }
+        if f in patches:
+            d = open(f, 'rb').read()
+            m = hashlib.md5()
+            m.update(d)
+            m.digest()
+            if patches[f]['md5'] == m.hexdigest():
+                file = open(f, 'rb+')
+                for (addr, val) in patches[f]['replace']:
+                    file.seek(addr)
+                    file.write(chr(val))
+                file.close()
+    except Exception, e:
+        log.debug("binaryPatch: %s" % str(e))
+        return False
+    return True
 
 def copyPluginFiles(src_dir):
     os.chdir(src_dir)
@@ -411,6 +432,11 @@
             continue
 
         else:
+            
+            if not binaryPatch(trg):
+                log.error("Target file %s could not be binary patched to fixup bugs." % trg)
+                continue
+
             if not os.path.exists(trg):
                 log.error("Target file %s does not exist. File copy failed." % trg)
                 continue