On 12/10/2016 04:56 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
John Morris writes:
On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 16:57 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> The most likely definition for "Linux is supported" is that
somewhere on
> Brother's dusty web site you can find a binary blob that you can
install on
> an Ubuntu LTS, or an RHEL distribution.
Close. Perl scripts instead of blobs, which are much more portable
across distros and versions. But at least for the .deb they didn't know
enough to make em noarch. (Haven't installed a Brother on RH tech) When
will companies learn to ask for community assistance?
Out of idle curiosity: what do those Perl scripts do? Are they
downloading a firmware image to the printer, or are they installing
something into CUPS?
For my HL-L2320D, the scripts installed a working driver, then later,
after connecting with the Brother site and downloading and installing a
utility package, it did a firmware upgrade via the utility while
connected on-line.
I would think that if it's just a bunch of Perl scripts, than someone
would add something comparable to CUPS, and call it a day.
It would be interesting to know the results of a before-and-after
system-wide difference of exactly, precisely, which files are affected
in what ways from the driver installation. (Of course, I could write
that about any installation. Making such information routinely and
easily available sounds even better.)
Ken
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