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On Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29:28 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_listen@×××.de: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need |
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> > a multilib System? |
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> unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but |
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> most ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some |
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> missing 32bit userspace libs they need etc. |
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> > https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay |
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> > I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work. |
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> > Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole |
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> > system have to be built accordingly? |
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> You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd- |
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> nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too. |
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> > Thank you & Nice Day |
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> > Silvio |
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> I hope I could help a bit, |
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> Nils |
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I can confirm this. When I tried to install net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin |
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from the brother overlay on a amd64 no-multilib system it failed. |
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I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give |
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it a go one of these days if it helps. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |