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dawidd6

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Registered: 2015-05-29

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[SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

Hello, how can i install those scanner drivers(availabe in deb and rpm package) on Arch?

http://support.brother.com/g/b/download … ng=English

I've tried with dpkg, it installs just fine but depends of libc6 package which i've not found in arch repos.

Last edited by dawidd6 (2015-05-30 12:34:05)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

Don't try to install deb or rpm pacakges, and check archwiki first.

Scanners drivers are handled by SANE , it's archwiki page has a section about brother hardware.

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dawidd6

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

Ok, but i don't see dcp-j125 in SANE supported devices

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

Read the sane wiki page carefully, there's a link to a page from brother.

On that page, search for your model . it will tell you which brscan* driver you need.
You will have to compile that driver yourself, it can be found in AUR (Archlinux User Repository) .

If you're new to arch, read the wiki pages for AUR and makepkg .

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dawidd6

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

Thank you very much man. You demand on me thinking.

So what have i done(it can help someone):
1. Installed brscan3 from AUR following instructions on SANE arch wiki and editing PKGBUILD, because source url is outdated.
2. Installed brscan-skey from AUR following instructions on SANE arch wiki and editing PKGBUILD, because source url is outdated.
3. Then i've added to directory ~/.config/autostart a file named dcp.desktop (example can be found on internet) with a command to run brscan-skey on gnome startup

dawidd6

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

However autostarting the brscan-skey is not working, i must run it manually if i want to scan something. How can i add brscan-skey to autostart?

UPDATE: done it by making ln -rs /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/brscan-skey /bin and change exec value in dcp.desktop to brscan-skey

Last edited by dawidd6 (2015-05-30 09:32:47)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J125 scanner driver

Thank you very much man. You demand on me thinking.

That was my intention indeed, glad you figured it out.
Please prepend [Solved] to the tread title.

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