To install a Brother MFC 9840 CDW printer on Ubuntu, you must:
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!
- Open up Synaptic Package Manager.
- Search for 9840 and install the packages.
- Set it up under System > Printers.