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On 4/6/22 19:10, tastytea wrote: |
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> On 2022-04-06 19:05-0600 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM <thelma@×××××××××××.com |
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>>> <mailto:thelma@×××××××××××.com>> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> Does anybody have this printer? |
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>>> |
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>>> Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer? |
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>>> |
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>>> Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring. |
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>>> |
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>>> I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from |
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>>> brother-overlay |
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>>> <https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay> as a |
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>>> template. The closest to your printer would likely be |
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>>> brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild |
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>>> <https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay/blob/master/net-print/brother-hll8350cdw-bin/brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild>. |
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>>> Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of |
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>>> SRC_URI to match the download URI used to download the driver(s) |
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>>> from the Brother website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to |
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>>> "hll6200dw". |
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>> This is a good idea. I've the files (modified them): |
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>> brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild and metadata.xml |
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>> My only question is which directory to put them in? I think: |
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>> /usr/local/portage/(something) |
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> That's described in |
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> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Creating_an_ebuild_repository>. In short: |
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> eselect repository create <repository_name> |
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I just tired generic brother printer and it works perfectly. |
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emerge --ask net-print/brother-genml1-bin |
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No need to complicate installation of specific driver. |
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