I removed dpkg
Then I could install the rpm packages.
It seems OK, except that the jobs are stocked in the queue!
>
>
>
> > Date: Monday, August 23, 2021 15:50:27 +0200
> > From: Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com>
> >
> >> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2021 at 3:40 PM
> >> From: "Richard"
> >>
> >> > Date: Monday, August 23, 2021 15:24:11 +0200
> >> > From: Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> > Date: Monday, August 23, 2021 11:38:31 +0200
> >> >> > From: Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I am trying to install a printer/scanner Brother DCP-J132W.
> >> >> >
> >> >>   ...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > When I run linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1
> >> >> > it want to install
> >> >> >
> >> >> > You are going to install following packages.
> >> >> >    dcpj132wlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb
> >> >> >    dcpj132wcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.deb
> >> >> >    brscan4-0.4.10-1.amd64.deb
> >> >> >    brscan-skey-0.3.1-2.amd64.deb
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > while I installed
> >> >> > brscan4-0.4.10-1.x86_64
> >> >> > brscan-skey-0.3.1-2.x86_64
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> The Brother support website for that printer provides installer
> >> >> and driver (including printer-specific) files for both Linux
> >> >> (rpm) and (deb). If you select the rpm option, running
> >> >> linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1 lists .rpm, rather than .deb,
> >> >> files in the install dialog that you show. That will likely get
> >> >> you further.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > This is exactly what I have done.
> >> > but, I linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1
> >> > what to install .deb !!
> >>
> >> You have to make certain that you selected, and so it downloaded,
> >> the rpm installer file. Both options show on that page. When I did
> >> that a few minutes ago it worked as expected, giving me .rpm files
> >> in the install dialog that matched what you show.
> >>
>
> > Again
> > This is exactly what I did.
> > Anyway, could you send me the gzip file?
>
> Looking into the installer script -- it's the same file whether you
> select rpm or deb on the download. If you look at the script you'll
> see that it makes a selection based on the package manager(s) it
> finds on your system -- looking first for "dpkg".
>
>   if [ "$(which dpkg 2> /dev/null)" != '' ];then
>      PKG=deb
>   elif [ "$(which rpm 2> /dev/null)" != '' ];then
>      PKG=rpm
>
> Do you happen to have the dpkg package manager installed -- perhaps
> from EPEL? If so, you should be able to modify the installer script
> to alter that selection to make it give you the rpm package
> installation options. [you may need to alter more than one thing -
> that was the most obvious one.]
>
>
>
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