Installing the Brother MFC-9840CDW on Ubuntu

Published on July 28, 2008

To install a Brother MFC 9840 CDW printer on Ubuntu, you must:

  1. Download the LPR driver from here
  2. Download the CUPS wrapper driver from here.
  3. Install them.

You can use these commands:

wget http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/lpr_debian/mfc9840cdwlpr-1.0.0-7.i386.deb&lang=English_lpr wget http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/rpmfiles/cups_wrapper/mfc9840cdwcups-1.0.0-7.i386.deb sudo mkdir /var/spool/lpd sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/cups/model sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-architecture mfc9840cdwlpr-1.0.0-7.i386.deb sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-architecture mfc9840cdwcups-1.0.0-7.i386.deb sudo aa-complain cupsd

UPDATE - 22ND NOVEMBER 2008 - ALTERNATIVE METHOD One blog reader, Hans, has commented that you can just use synaptic to install the printer drivers. I haven't tried this myself so I would be interested to hear how others get on using this method. Please post a comment if it worked for you!

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