On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 01:12:41PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network > > printer to my rawhide system. the shared work area where i hang out > > has a brother MFC7460DN printer on the network, at 192.168.2.126, and > > i've verified that i can ping it, so that's a start. > > > > i've read a few different alleged installation instructions which > > all seem to differ. what's the recommended recipe for this? > > > > googling a while ago brought me here: > > > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=279494 > > > > so i downloaded both lpr and cups rpm packages from brother and > > installed them. i'm not sure if i need to install "a2ps", and i'd > > rather not as it would drag down a ton of dependencies. > > > > i've browsed to localhost:631 to see if i can add a printer there, > > but it seems that it sets up a new printer as if it's connnected via > > USB and not on the network. > > > > i'm going to keep messing around, but if anyone out there has set up > > that printer (or something suitably similar), i'm open to guidance. > > > > rday > > as I've just recently learned, there is a brother printer installer > program for Linux that removes all the futzing around... you just > run it, answer the questions and it downloads whatever it needs from > the Brother site, does some magic incatations and voila! > the one I have at the moment is "linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1" > and I'm not sure of the URL where I got it, but pls to hang on a > mo while I go look... > [short pause] > Ah, here it is: > > http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7460dn_all&os=127&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625 > > If you read all the notes, you'll see there is some mention of Fedora > 10/11/12, but I've used it successfully on Fedora 19 and 20, as well > as Centos 6, with a Brother DCP7065DN. oh, for the love of mutt: $ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1 MFC7460DN You are going to install following packages. mfc7460dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb cupswrapperMFC7460DN-2.0.4-2.i386.deb brscan4-0.4.2-1.amd64.deb brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.amd64.deb OK? [y/N] -> whaaaaa? oh, here we go: if [ "$(which dpkg 2> /dev/null)" != '' ];then PKG=deb elif [ "$(which rpm 2> /dev/null)" != '' ];then PKG=rpm ... sure, checking for the existence of "dpkg" is *just* the way to identify the base packaging system. :-P rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
