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Votan

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Registered: 2010-11-05

Posts: 26

Printer - Driver only available in .deb.sh

Hi,

So my girlfriend has a Lexmark S605 and it seems Lexmark only offers the drivers as a .deb.sh package.

Now how do I get this thing to work at all and maybe even via wlan as it is spposed to?

deb2targz doesnt do the trick

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Printer - Driver only available in .deb.sh

It's a script, try to just run it.

Votan

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Registered: 2010-11-05

Posts: 26

Re: Printer - Driver only available in .deb.sh

that was pretty much the first thing I tried and it fails with this in the console:

tar fail #1
ERROR...multiple or missing tar.gz file(s).

and the following in the installerscripts gui-window:

Extracting file: dxdbuspolicy.te
Extracting file: jre-6u12-linux-i586.bin
Extracting file: lexmark-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
Extracting file: dxlpia.sh
Extracting file: launcher_87b076ac_5714_4095_b8ae_c17133910650
Extracting file: dxnet.te
Extracting file: EU_Waste_Electronic_Information.pdf

=============================
Execute: sleep 3

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Using tar installation
=============================
Execute: rm -rf /home/my_username/lua_wnAwMZ

=============================

note: cups and a jre are already installed

Last edited by Votan (2011-10-27 17:14:55)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Printer - Driver only available in .deb.sh

Not sure if I follow, are we talking about the same file?

[karol@black foo3]$ tar xfz lexmark_inkjet_09_driver_1.0_1.i386_ts.deb.sh.tar.gz 
[karol@black foo3]$ ls
total 56M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 28M 2009-07-22  lexmark-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386_ts.deb.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 28M 10-27 15:28 lexmark_inkjet_09_driver_1.0_1.i386_ts.deb.sh.tar.gz
[karol@black foo3]$ ./lexmark-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386_ts.deb.sh 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing nixstaller..............................................................................................
Collecting info for this system...
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86
TRACKING IDENT = 140509
cpu speed = 1993 MHz
ram size = 490,87890625 MB
/tmp = 216 MB , /usr/local = 3803 MB

the gui pops out and asks me to accept the license and later for the root password. I haven't installed it, but looks fine so far.

Votan

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Registered: 2010-11-05

Posts: 26

Re: Printer - Driver only available in .deb.sh

exactly, the gui pops up, I accept the license and at about 25-50% it fails with the errors I've posted in my previous post