trying to install drivers to connect printer
my printer doesnt show up in the "add printer" option in KDE settings, so i went to brother's official website and downloaded their RPM files for it, however i cant seem to install the rpm file, is there anything i can do? the printer simply doesnt work when i try to print anything
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the model isnt showing up here
cant install the one i got from the official site
is this an issue because of bazzite being immutable
If you need to layer the driver, use
rpm-ostree install /path/to/file.rpm
Make sure to use the full file path, rpm-ostree prefers that in my experiencei think i did do that the problem is i added the printer at i didnt print anything
said it was layered already when i tried doing it**
also i cant just add the printer
cuz its not in the list
Hm, what's the model?
DCP-1610NW
i think the drivers are under DCP-1610W idk
Can you just send me your
rpm-ostree status?on the printer the model is exactly DCP-1617NW
You need to reboot for the driver to actually be installed.
oh
Also, maybe don't unlock your filesystem lol. There's little reason to and it all goes on reboot.
then after will it show up in the model list?
what
I'd hope so
If you look at this screenshot, there's three OS "images"
The middle one (With the dot next to it) is the one you're booted from. The dot means the currently booted image. The one above it is the one you'll next boot into when you restart you computer. As you can see, that one has the driver in the "LocalPackages" list but your current deployment doesn't.
Also I don't know how advisable installing snapd is, but I'm not 100% sure on if it's bad at all
i installed it because i wanted to see if i could get the ppd instead
but it was way too confusing
ok i've rebooted it
I believe bazzite comes with libppd
idk really i'm kinda confused on alot of things since i only switched to linux last week lmao
?
idk if its supposed to be like this but yeah
now imma check the printers in system settings
yep
I'm hoping it's there
well
its not
i thought this would be alot faster
because when i saw that brother had linux drivers i was like "oh cool i can actually set it up"
I think you need a few more files, one sec
Apparently older brothers are more troublesome
Newer ones have ootb support
oh
sadg
its also over internet so idk if its worse to setup
This person installed these things, did the download page have anything else?
i think so
See if any of this is on there
Most insterested in the cupswrapper one
oh
since the cupswrapper and the wlpr were in the same box i thought that they werent meant to be installed together
i may be stupid
Hey, we're all new at some point.
true
They do all need to be installed
Installing dcp160wlpr and not the cups wrapper I think means the printer driver that Linux uses (CUPS) just can't see it. It needs the wrapper's functionality for that.
oh
yeah that makes sense
why the hell cant i tab to autocomplete while using rpm-ostree
thats annoying
had to type out the full filename
Also run this
sudo setenforce 0what it do
Apparently SELinux causes issues, this disables it but still makes it log things.
SELinux is a security thing but you'll survive without it. It's not like running without Windows defender.
oh
that makes sense
alright i installed the drivers i'm going to reboot now and see if it shows up
the cupswrapper worked, thanks
Good good 🙂