[SOLVED] Can't install a Brother printer in an Arch-based OS

Fudge · 02-04-2020, 06:46 PM

Hello everybody,
I'm running Endeavour OS and I would like to install a Brother printer, like I did in another PC with Manjaro. I opened Pamac,looked for DCP-J562DW drivers, installed it but nothing happens: the job appears briefly in the print queue and suddenly vanishes. I've had no problem with this printer in Manjaro and Arcolinux, I've been searching for a solution in Google and Arch forums but I couldn't find it ...is there anybody who can help me?

Thank You

binkyd · 02-04-2020, 07:10 PM

try this site:

https://help.brother-usa.com/app/ans...l-tool---linux

The installer

linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1

worked great for us.

Fudge · 02-04-2020, 07:22 PM

I did this when I installed on KDE Neon, MX, Neptune and Peppermint (yes, I'm a distro-hopper...) and worked flawlessly, but they are all Ubuntu-Debian based systems. Endeavour is Arch and I read that is not a good idea to put a .deb package in it... However, thank you for your suggestion!

binkyd · 02-04-2020, 07:34 PM

Running Manjaro w/ Cinnamon 4 and had no problems on a lenovo and dell.

And there's always debtap to try, too.

Fudge · 02-04-2020, 07:42 PM

Ok, I'll try tomorrow, now here in Spain is too late. Thanks a lot.

hazel · 02-05-2020, 03:40 AM

Brother provide both .deb and .rpm packages. Most distros have an alien translation program that will create an installable package from at least one of these.

sevendogsbsd · 02-05-2020, 06:24 AM

Does the AUR work in this distro? If so, check to see if someone else has created a build for it.

Fudge · 02-05-2020, 06:49 AM

Problem solved! AUR works, but Pamac didn't warn me that i had to install two dependencies more: lib32-glibc and a2ps.
Downloaded, installed and voilá, the printers works!
This is the link sent me by a Endeavour forum user:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251761

Thank you everybody, I'll mark the thread as solved.

Bye

hazel · 02-05-2020, 09:43 AM

I think a lot of Brother printers need 32-bit glibc for their filter programs. Of course you don't notice that if you have a .deb- or .rpm-based distro because you can use the Brother install script and that installs the library automatically.