Re: can't install laser driver supplied as rpm

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

Steve Kleene wrote:
> I'm running Lenny and trying to install the manufacturer's Linux driver for a
> Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser printer.  The driver is supplied as a tar,
> which unpacks to a single rpm file:
>
>   Xerox-Phaser-6280-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
>
> I ran
>
>   alien --to-deb --scripts Xerox-Phaser-6280-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
>
> which completed without error, making
>
>   xerox-phaser-6280_1.0-2_all.deb
>
> However, when I try to install this
>
>   apt-get -V install xerox-phaser-6280_1.0-2_all.deb
>
> it fails as follows
>
>   Reading package lists... Done
>   Building dependency tree
>   Reading state information... Done
>   E: Couldn't find package xerox-phaser-6280_1.0-2_all.deb
>   

To install .debs you use dpkg -i <file-name>.deb, not apt-get.

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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