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mattz7

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Registered: 2020-01-07

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[SOLVED] Brother HL-L2352DW printer - move /opt to /usr/share

Hi everyone ,

Does anyone know what changes I have to make to the original files in hll2350dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm or to the PKGBUILD in brother-hll2350dw so that the printer works with the files residing in /usr/share instead of /opt? 

What I mean is I want to move /opt/brother to /usr/share/brother and get the printer to work with this path.

Thanks in advance for all the replies.

Last edited by mattz7 (2021-01-02 23:21:17)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother HL-L2352DW printer - move /opt to /usr/share

I think you'll find https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … D_for_.RPM helpful.

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mattz7

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Registered: 2020-01-07

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Brother HL-L2352DW printer - move /opt to /usr/share

Thank you for your reply Unfortunately, I had read the article you linked but was still unable to make things work.

Luckily, I found out that I could use a generic driverless option (IPP Everywhere) in CUPS and it turned out to work like a charm

All I had to do was run the following to install my printer:

sudo lpadmin -p Brother -E -v "ipp://brother/ipp" -m everywhere

I consider this problem solved.