On 04/10/2024 03:41, [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 04:32:31PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
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.
Nevertheless, the reminders are spot-on, for potential buyers to
bear in mind. Informed consumers and that.
They're also 32-bit only, requiring the user to add this architecture
(and to install 32-bit versions of basic libraries such as libc).
Fortunately, most printers nowadays do not require proprietary drivers,
they support the "driverless" approach:
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting (Which should really be
called "Universal Driver", but I digress.)
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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