Re: bothersome Brother package
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 03:32 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2005 17.14, michael wrote:
> > I couldn't get a .deb from Brother (for printing) to install and now I
> > can't seem to get rid off it whatever I do (see below - it wouldn't
> > in/de-stall since some directories not present so I created them but it
> > doesn't help NB /usr/local has lots of my valuable data too!). I don't
> > need it since I've sorted how to print to the Brother printer without
> > said .deb but with it hanging about it's making present 'apt-get's very
> > messy. All help welcome - couldn't see how to sort this mess out from
> > the man pages.
>
> May I ask you where you found the hl5150dlpr package. I can't seem to find
> it on Brother's homepage.
>
By following 'linux' links from Brother help/support page, then LPD
finally end up at
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html
but note it doesn't seem to install and tries to remove /usr/local (!)
during uninstall...
> Thanks
>
> --
> Olle Eriksson
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>
>
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Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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