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Re: Synaptic Problem



On 12/10/23 15:48, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:


On 12/10/2023 01:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/10/23 10:47, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have just reinstalled Bookworm.

Unfortunately, when I tru tto use synaptic I get the following error:

E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

Unfortunately, Google has not been of any help.

A solution to the problem would be appreciated.

Tanks in advance.

A solution may already exist on your machine if it knows about brscan.

Brother has a deb containing their smartinstaller as a bash script, named in my case "linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1" or your can get the latest version from brothers sites, visit with firefox.

Unpack it, run it from a cli, it asks for the model number string of the printer or scanner, goes to brother'sown linux repo and downloads the latest version available for that device and installs and configures it to Just Work with cups IF you have removed cups-browsed thereby disallowing cups from setting up the default printer driver which cannot drive the printer in anything but waste paper mode. Brothers own drivers support every feature the printer has, accessible from the web interface cups serves at localhost:631. Despite the poor publicity I've seen about factory drivers, brothers drivers for linux work 100% here. Linux support is excellent for their products.



Cheers, Gene Heskett.
Gene

Thank you for your encouraging reply. I have the Brother MCF-L2710DW Laser printer and am very pleased with it. I followed your directions and ran:

sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1


Here are the CUPS results:

Description: 	MFCL2710DW
Location: 	
Driver: 	Brother MFCL2710DW for CUPS (grayscale, 2-sided printing)
Connection: dnssd://Brother%20MFC-L2710DW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-b42200417fc9
Defaults: 	job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided

I ran "Prnt Test Page" anmd got:

Description: 	MFCL2710DW
Location: 	
Driver: 	Brother MFCL2710DW for CUPS (grayscale, 2-sided printing)
Connection: dnssd://Brother%20MFC-L2710DW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-b42200417fc9
Defaults: 	job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided

Well since you specced A4 paper, did you have A4 paper in the tray? and of course, did it work? You may need to goto locolhost:631 with your browser and configure the options to suit your environment. Also, that uuid is unique to that printer, so it must be correct. else you'd collect a no such device error. An ls of /dev/serial/by-id might serve as a checking src. klipper, the better 3d printer driver, uses that to make sure its driving the right printer since usb has rather poor id mechanisms. from my printers output:
root@mkspi:~# ls -l /dev/serial/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 3 01:17 usb-Klipper_rp2040_E5D94D950DCD5658-if00 -> ../../ttyACM0 the E5D9..... is a unique to that chip serial number, no other rp2040 has it. So do all the stm32 controller chips.
Unforch that is not always true, as witnessed by this machine:
gene@coyote:~/src/klipper-docs$ ls -l /dev/serial/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 7 11:39 usb-1a86_USB2.0-Serial-if00-port0 -> ../../ttyUSB1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 7 11:39 usb-FTDI_USB_HS_SERIAL_CONVERTER_FTDHG45D-if00-port0 -> ../../ttyUSB0 where there aren't any chip serial numbers, but cups seems to have other ways of assuring its driving the correct device as a printer. One of those is actually driving a CM11A X10 home controller.

Probably more info than you need if the test page worked,
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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