Azerthoth at 15:42, 20 May 2011

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Installing a brother printer under Sabayon Linux

Installing brother printer under Sabayon Linux is fairly straightforward.

1). Install RPM by typing '''emerge -a rpm''' from the command line, as root.

2). Download the proper LPR driver rpm from [http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html here]. Make sure you get the proper package for your printer. Also, make sure that you have it saved into someplace that makes sense, like your home directory.

3). Download the CUPS wrapper rpm from [http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html here]. Again, make sure you get the PROPER package for your printer. Save this to the same place that you save the LPR driver.

4). Open up a terminal. using '''su''', become root. Change to the directory where you saved the rpms, by using '''cd (directory)'''.

5). Install the rpms, by typing '''rpm -ivh --nodeps''' followed by the rpm file names. Do this for BOTH rpm files.

6). After you have installed the rpm files, it is neccesary to copy a file. In order to do this, enter '''cd /usr/lib/cups/filter/''' and, once you have changed directories, enter '''ls | grep brlpd''' and look at the output. Find the file that corresponds to your printer. To copy this file to the proper location, copy this file by using '''cp brlpdwrapper(model) /usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapper(model)'''.

7). Final step! Yay! All that's left to do now is to restart cups. From the command line, enter '''/etc/init.d/cupsd restart''' to restart the cups daemon. Now, install the printer normally!

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Azerthoth at 15:42, 20 May 2011