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Originally Posted by vonqon
Hello, I am running Slackware 13.37 64.
All I can find for my printer, the HL-2242D, is .rpm and .deb binaries from the Brother webpage. After several Google searches I cannot find any ppd drivers propriety or open source. I am using CUPS. Is there a way to get these binaries to work in Slackware ( I have tried rpm2tgz, with no success)? Or am I stuck with a fancy paperweight?
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I downloaded the current cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4-2.i386.deb from the brother website and extracted the package. Searched for ppd in the scripts. And then I found the PPD file within the script cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4.
Code:
dpkg-deb --extract cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4-2.i386.deb brother-printer
cd brother-printer
grep -ri 'ppd' *
#found instances of ppd in ./usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2242D/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4
vim ./usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2242D/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2242D-2.0.4
I then pulled out the PPD code and it is attached to this post as HL2242D.txt. Simply rename HL2242D.txt to HL2242D.ppd and you'll have your PPD file.
SAM
