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archerbob:
In my case I have a Brother HL-2250DN Laser Printer

So far I've installed CUPS and it see's my printer, but does not print.  I presume I need drivers or something, hence I downloaded the files:

hl2250dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm
cupswrapperHL2250DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm

Also available as deb files... either way how does one install on tinycore?

archerbob:
Okay I have sudo su in terminal and done rpm -i packagename to install it, as to whether there's more to this I don't know.

Alas my printer still doesn't work from tinycore, can someone walk me through the setup of CUPS for a brother printer?

Juanito:

--- Quote from: archerbob on October 30, 2017, 01:01:36 PM ---So far I've installed CUPS and it see's my printer, but does not print.

--- End quote ---
When cups browser interface sees your printer, does it propose a driver? When you try to print, does the cups log show any errors and, if so, what are they?


--- Quote ---I presume I need drivers or something, hence I downloaded the files:

hl2250dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm
cupswrapperHL2250DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm

Also available as deb files... either way how does one install on tinycore?

--- End quote ---
It might be a good idea to unpack the rpm/deb in a temporary location and examine the files they contain to see if they are required and, if so, whether they have dependencies on bash, perl, python, etc.

archerbob:
How do I unpack them?

When I go in through CUPS it recognizes I have a network printer, but there is no make for brother, so far I tried generic and raw.  Neither of them work.

archerbob:
Okay I found the command to unpack:

rpm2cpio packagename.rpm | cpio -idmv

tc@box:~/Downloads$ rpm -qlp hl2250dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm
/usr/local/Brother
/usr/local/Brother/Printer
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf/brHL2250DNfunc
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf/brHL2250DNrc
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf/braddprinter
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf/brprintconflsr3
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf/paperinf
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/inf/setupPrintcap2
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/lpd
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/lpd/filterHL2250DN
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/lpd/psconvert2
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/lpd/rawtobr3
/var/spool/lpd/HL2250DN
tc@box:~/Downloads$

tc@box:~/Downloads/cups_wrapper$ rpm -qlp cupswrapperHL2250DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/cupswrapper
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/cupswrapper/brcupsconfig4
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2250DN-2.0.4

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