On 05/10/15 18:48, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I made the /var/spool/lpd directory manually, since a search of Debian
> packages didn't find any package that includes it as part of its
> infrastructure.

I think you will find it is from the 'lpr' package

Rowland

> I still think that something's missing, (possibly
> something that puts files into this spool queue) but now the package
> hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb that I downloaded from Brother's website
> installs without problem.
>
> I still don't know how to submit any file to be printed. Presumably it
> has to be a .ps or .pdf, since that's what the printer can handle
> natively.
>
> But man lpr tells me to specify a destination I have no idea what to
> specify here to identify the printer.
>
> From the man page for lpr, I get the impression that lpr is part of
> CUPS. Is that really correct? Wasn't there an lpr command long ago
> that wasn't part of CUPS? It seems I remember using something like
> it in the days of Unix in the 1970's.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:35:25PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:02:30PM +0200, Riccardo Boninsegna wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>>>> Obtaining a driver from Brother's support site as a .deb file, I tried to install it with dpkg:
>>>>
>>>> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
>>> As the name says, that's an LPR driver.
>>>
>>> Brother does not make actual drivers for CUPS, only ones for LPR plus
>>> a hack to make LPR drivers work in CUPS!
>> I'd be delighted woth using lpr. But even man lpr tells me about
>> CUPS. Has man lpr been suborned by CUPS?
>>
>>> 1: If you're using an i386 system, you're good to go; if you're using
>>> amd64, enable 32 bit compatibility with (as superuser) `dpkg
>>> --add-architecture i386 && aptitude update && aptitude install
>>> libstdc++6:i386`; if you're using any other architecture, give up!
>> I have an i386 system. But as I mentioned, using dpkg to
>> install the lpr driver failed:
>>
>> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
>> Selecting previously unselected package hl3170cdwlpr.
>> (Reading database ... 118096 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to unpack hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb ...
>> Unpacking hl3170cdwlpr (1.1.2-1) ...
>> Setting up hl3170cdwlpr (1.1.2-1) ...
>> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
>> chown: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
>> chgrp: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
>> chmod: cannot access ‘/var/spool/lpd/hl3170cdw’: No such file or directory
>> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver#
>>
>> So until I get the lpr level working, it won't help much to install the
>> lpr compatiility for UPS.
>>
>> Or is the CUPS lpr compatibility etting in my way with installing an lpr
>> driver?
>>
>>> 2: Download both drivers from
>>> http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl3170cdw_all&os=128
>>> 3: Install "cups-daemon" (the actual print server) and "cups-bsd"
>>> (backwards compatibility with LPR command line tools)
>> These are already installed, presumably with the default iinstall of
>> devuan alpha 2.
>>
>>> 4: Make sure your printer is connected and ready, install the LPR driver
>> How to I "connect" a network printer that communicates over wifi?
>> And this is the step that failed.
>>
>>> 5: Install the CUPS driver
>>> 6: If all went fine, you should have the printer already configured
>>> (you may want to visit localhost:631 with a browser to set paper size,
>>> etc)!
>> -- hendrik
>>
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