Okay so it's solved, though some questions remain. Here goes:
What I did and wrote in my first post, I did coming from "su". Just the next day I logged in as root, and, lo and behold, the driver
was installed. I retried it several times from here in a console window and got a clean install without any warnings or error-notes.
I proceeded to install the wrapper driver with the same results. I went back to normal user and retried from "su": some (other) error again (though no "abort"). YAST2, when asked, was yodelling something about conflicts but that's about it so far. Since I'm not using lpr I'm not worried (too much
).
A cookie to anyone who can explain the different behavoiurs from "su" vs root (Brother is exempt!
)
.
P.S.: The printer is working beautifully so far, very nice and clear printouts at 600*600 dpi resolution.
P.P.S.: Brother advised to install via
Code:
rpm -ihv --nodeps {--force-overwrite} <packet-name>
but I want YAST to handle my rpmbase and so used yast...