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Terminal install print driver

Asked by Randy Mentor

In follow-up to a previous post about printing... the answer provided suggested printer driver update.

That led to http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=ca&lang=en&prod=mfc7440n_all&os=128&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625

Unfortunately I get bogged down at the terminal level and tried several variations...

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* Brother machine name
[sudo] password for ken:
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* MFC-7440N
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* MFC-744ON
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* MFG:Brother MDL:MFC-7440N
[sudo] password for ken:
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* MFC-7440N
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* Brother machine name MFC-7440N
Only root can perform this operation.
ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* Brother machine name MFC-7440N
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer MFC-7440Nbash: linux-brprinter-installer: No such file or directory
ken@ken-OptiPlex-760:~/Downloads$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* MFC-7440N
Driver-packages cannot be found.
 Confirm the model name.

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Randall Ross (randall) said : 		#1

I'm guessing the script is looking for the drivers on your system somewhere, and not finding them. Might be worth a try to install the drivers first using the .deb files provided here, and then run the script:
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=ca&lang=en&prod=mfc7440n_all&os=128
(.deb files can be installed via double-click, which will open the Ubuntu Software Centre. From there, install them as you would any other Ubuntu package.)

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