On Oct 03, 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >   1. (sudo) dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb
> >   2. (sudo) apt-get update && apt-get -f install
> 
> Of course, such manual install of `.deb` files means that you won't
> automatically get future updates, e.g. to fix security bugs.

Given our friends at Brother don't have any repositories at all, this is
somewhat a moot point.

> To add insult to injury, such `.deb` files often contain proprietary code,
> of course.

Nobody said Brother's printer/scanner driver was open source in the
first place.



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