[SOLVED] Brother MFC-7360N Pkrinter

TBotNik · 08-21-2018, 11:03 AM

All;

Trying to install my printer! Go to the Brother drivers download, download run the bash install script, but nothing shows in the CUPS drivers for this and there is no ppd file to browse for, so this printer never installs or installs with default drivers that of course do not work.

Anyone faced this and have a work around?

All the HOWTO install web pages are 100% wrong as they have "0" diagnostics and help when the install does not work correctly!

Cheers!

TBNK

hazel · 08-21-2018, 11:35 AM

You appear to be using Ubuntu so hopefully the script downloaded a deb package for you. Deb and rpm are the only Linux formats that Brother seem to know about. The installed files, including the ppd, go into the /opt tree. Have you looked for them there? Here is a file tree of what was installed for me in /opt/brother/Printers/HL1110:

Code:

cupswrapper  inf  lpd

./cupswrapper:
brcupsconfig4  brother-HL1110-cups-en.ppd  brother_lpdwrapper_HL1110

./inf:
braddprinter  brHL1110func  brHL1110rc  paperinf  setupPrintcap

./lpd:
brprintconflsr3  filter_HL1110  psconvert2  rawtobr3

I installed this Brother driver successfully on Debian using their script and wrote a blog about it, which might possibly help. https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...t-linux-37620/

FredGSanford · 08-21-2018, 12:41 PM

I've always had luck with Deb & RPM based distros and my Brother's MFC-5440cn...I did get it working with Slackware at one time, but I had it setup with Crux a couple years ago but nothing never come out of the printer. I never figured out why and I do not have crux installed anymore. Just a thought!

hazel · 08-21-2018, 12:59 PM

You need to have glibc-32 installed. That's included in the Crux core repo now, but I don't think it used to be.

TBotNik · 08-21-2018, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

You need to have glibc-32 installed. That's included in the Crux core repo now, but I don't think it used to be.

hazel,
Do you have the ppa to add to /etc/sources.list for this repo?

Cheers!

TBNK

TBotNik · 08-21-2018, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

You appear to be using Ubuntu so hopefully the script downloaded a deb package for you. Deb and rpm are the only Linux formats that Brother seem to know about. The installed files, including the ppd, go into the /opt tree. Have you looked for them there? Here is a file tree of what was installed for me in /opt/brother/Printers/HL1110:

Code:

cupswrapper  inf  lpd

./cupswrapper:
brcupsconfig4  brother-HL1110-cups-en.ppd  brother_lpdwrapper_HL1110

./inf:
braddprinter  brHL1110func  brHL1110rc  paperinf  setupPrintcap

./lpd:
brprintconflsr3  filter_HL1110  psconvert2  rawtobr3

I installed this Brother driver successfully on Debian using their script and wrote a blog about it, which might possibly help. https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...t-linux-37620/

hazel,

Dir: /opt/brother/Printers/

does not exist! I know the install is failing somewhere, but can't find it!

Cheers!

TBNK

TBotNik · 08-21-2018, 01:32 PM

hazel,

The only thing that installed correctly as I ran the installs (multiple for MFC models) is:

/opt/brother/scanner/...

Therefore only the scanner portion of the 4 installs (fax, ftp, printer, scanner) actually installed.

TBNK

hazel · 08-22-2018, 11:20 AM

Well, I'm at a loss. Did you use the thing they call the "driver install tool"? I initially tried to install by hand without using it and that didn't work. You download it from their site as a zipped file and it unzips to a script called linux-brprinter-installer, which you have to run as root. I've run it twice for two different Brother printers (one a combined printer/scanner like yours) on two different machines and it worked smoothly both times. One was running Debian and the other AntiX. In both cases the script used apt to install the 32-bit compatibility library that the filters need and put the drivers in /opt.

TBotNik · 08-22-2018, 01:06 PM

All,

OK, got the i386 32bit stuff installed. Ran gdebi on all the i386 packages. Still no printer or ppd file.

What do I do next?

Cheers!

TBNK

TBotNik · 08-22-2018, 04:36 PM

All,

Maybe I forgot to say this is a network printer on IP 192.168.0.150!

Cheers!

TBNK

TBotNik · 08-22-2018, 04:37 PM

Can I get some help?

TBotNik · 08-22-2018, 04:48 PM

Finally,

Ran the bash script one more time and then:

Code:

updatedb && locate -i ppd

and the ppd file finally showed up in:

Code:

/usr/share/ppd/MFC7360N.ppd

so went into cups to the non-working def for this via:

Quote:

Administration=>Administration=>Modify Printer

Went through the config down to the "Browse" for ppd and selected the ppd, BOOM! working!

Marking this sovled!

TBNK

hazel · 08-23-2018, 05:27 AM

Glad it finally worked for you. Just out of interest, is the file in /usr/share/ppd an actual file or a symbolic link? In my Debian system, it's a link to the actual ppd file in /opt/brother/Printers/HL110/cupswrapper