L’utilizzo delle stampanti Brother sono Linux è diventato più agevole negli ultimi anni grazie al rilascio dei Driver Install Tool da parte di Brother. Ad esempio per la stampante MFC-5890CN è disponibile attualmente un Driver install Tool decisamente efficace per le distro con pacchetti .deb . rpm. ( dettagli in Installare stampante di Brother MFC-5890CN in Ubuntu nuovo installer tools ). Se si utilizza una distribuzione arch o sua derivata ad esempio Manjaro la situazione è meno agevole con qualche pacchetto che va addirittura rimosso per riuscire ad utilizzare la stampante.
Installare la stampante di rete Borther MFC-5890 in Maniaro arch Linux derivative
Verificare che il servizio di stampa sia disponibile con
$ sudo systemctl status org.cups.cupsd
● org.cups.cupsd.service - CUPS Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/org.cups.cupsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-03-30 08:18:19 CEST; 1 weeks 2 days ago
Docs: man:cupsd(8)
Main PID: 737 (cupsd)
CGroup: /system.slice/org.cups.cupsd.service
└─737 /usr/bin/cupsd -l
Systemd rappresenta un blocco di demoni, librerie e utilities per la gestione e configurazione di linux con l' obiettivo di rimpiazzare Linux init system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd_%28Italiano%29)
Servizio cups
Con la versione 2.0.0 di cups il nome servizio è cambiato da cups in org.cups.cupsd
in forma estesa da
cups.service
a
org.cups.cupsd.service
In talune situazioni potrebbe essere necessario disabilitare il vecchio servizio cups e abilitare il nuovo con systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service ( /etc/systemd/system/ | /etc/systemd/system/printer.target.wants/@org.cups.cupsd.service ).
La configurazione dei servizi di stampa può essere effettuata via web all’indirizzo
http://localhost:631/
File di configurazione di cupsd con porta del servizio web /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
...
# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /run/cups/cups.sock
...
Il driver per la stampante brother-mfc-5890cn è disponibile via AUR e si può installare con
yaourt -S brother-mfc-5890cn
Purtroppo se si prova ad aggiungere la stampante la procedura non da esito positivo
con pagine di errore del tipo
Per effettuare l’inserimento è necessario prima rimuovere alcuni pacchetti.
pacman -R manjaro-printer
pacman -R foomatic-db foomatic-db-nonfree
Riavviare il servizio con
sudo systemctl start org.cup.cupsd
Accedere nuovamente a
http://localhost:631/
La procedura evidenziata al termine consentirà di visualizzare premendo il menu Printers la seguente pagina.
Nella home di cups Selezionare in <CUPS for Amministrators>
(digitare la password di amministratore)
Nella pagina seguente clikkare il pulsante [Add Printers]
Quindi selezionare in Discovered Network Printers : Brother MFC-5890CN …
In location è possibile digitare un testo identificativo tipo homeprinter
Selezionare e Premere [Add Printer] nella pagina impostare
le opzioni di default delle stampante
Add Printer utilizzando la modalità AppSocket/HP JetDirect
La stampante può essere installata anche utilizzando l’opzione AppSocket/Hp JetDirect.
In questo caso dopo aver premuto <Continue> si deve precisare l’ip di rete
Dopo aver inserito Name Description Location
Si deve selezionare il driver appropriato in questo caso
appunto Brother MFC.5890CN CUPS v1.1
Si conclude al solito con le opzioni di default
Aggiungere la Virtual PDF printer ( CUPS-PDF )
Per impostare in cups una stampante virtuale così da inviare l’output di stampa verso un file pdf
Aggiungere la Virtual PDF printer ( CUPS-PDF )
Scelta della stampante virtuale
Impostazioni opzioni di default
Network printer via AppSocket
Risorse:
$ yaourt -S brother-mfc-5890cn
==> Downloading brother-mfc-5890cn PKGBUILD from AUR...
x PKGBUILD
x lpr-license.txt
x brother-mfc-5890cn.install
x cupswrapper-license.txt
Comment by holgersson (2013-02-10 22:21)
Why? Anyway - I'm not using Arch anymore (and therefore no systemd).
Do you want to maintain these two packages?
Comment by holgersson (2013-02-10 22:22)
Free for all! 🙂
Comment by holgersson (2013-02-10 22:24)
Free for all 🙂
See brother-cups-wrapper-mfc-5890cn for more information.
Comment by cin (2013-02-11 14:14)
This one works flawless. I had just wrong lib32 packages installed! Anyway, sad to here we lost an active archlinux member.
Best regards
Anonymous comment (2014-04-05 21:29)
Adopted and fixed PKGBUILD.
brother-mfc-5890cn 1.1.2-2 (Sat 5 Apr 23:29:07 CEST 2014)
This package is orphaned
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> brother-mfc-5890cn dependencies:
- cups (already installed)
- lib32-glibc (already installed)
==> Continue building brother-mfc-5890cn ? [Y/n]
==> --------------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: brother-mfc-5890cn 1.1.2-2 (Sat 25 Apr 11:33:45 CEST 2015)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading mfc5890cnlpr-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1864k 100 1864k 0 0 98461 0 0:00:19 0:00:19 --:--:-- 145k
-> Downloading mfc5890cncupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 15647 100 15647 0 0 25374 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 25359
-> Found cupswrapper-license.txt
-> Found lpr-license.txt
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
mfc5890cnlpr-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm ... Passed
mfc5890cncupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm ... Passed
cupswrapper-license.txt ... Passed
lpr-license.txt ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
-> Extracting mfc5890cnlpr-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm with bsdtar
-> Extracting mfc5890cncupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
-> Purging unwanted files...
-> Removing libtool files...
-> Removing static library files...
-> Compressing man and info pages...
-> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package "brother-mfc-5890cn"...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Adding install file...
-> Generating .MTREE file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: brother-mfc-5890cn 1.1.2-2 (Sat 25 Apr 11:34:07 CEST 2015)
==> Exporting brother-mfc-5890cn to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ directory
[sudo] password for maurizio:
‘/tmp/yaourt-tmp-maurizio/PKGDEST.IHI/brother-mfc-5890cn-1.1.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz’ -> ‘/var/cache/pacman/pkg/brother-mfc-5890cn-1.1.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz’
==> Continue installing brother-mfc-5890cn ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
==> v
==> Continue installing brother-mfc-5890cn ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
==> v
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/bin/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/bin/brprintconf_mfc5890cn
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/lib/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/lib/cups/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/lib/cups/filter/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrappermfc5890cn
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/cupswrapper/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brPrintListij2
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08aa.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08ab.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08ac.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08ae.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08af.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08ag.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brio08ak.bcm
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brmfc5890cnfunc
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/brmfc5890cnrc
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/inf/paperinfij2
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/lpd/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/lpd/brmfc5890cnfilter
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/lpd/filtermfc5890cn
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/lpd/psconvertij2
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/cups/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/cups/model/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/cups/model/brmfc5890cn.ppd
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/licenses/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/licenses/brother-mfc-5890cn/
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/licenses/brother-mfc-5890cn/cupswrapper-licence.txt
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/licenses/brother-mfc-5890cn/lpr-licence.txt
==> Continue installing brother-mfc-5890cn ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
==>
brother-mfc-5890cn /usr/share/licenses/brother-mfc-5890cn/lpr-licence.txt
==> Continue installing brother-mfc-5890cn ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
c
brother-mfc-5890cn E: ELF file ('usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/lpd/brmfc5890cnfilter') outside of a valid path.
brother-mfc-5890cn E: ELF file ('usr/share/brother/Printer/mfc5890cn/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1') outside of a valid path.
brother-mfc-5890cn W: Dependency included and not needed ('cups')
==> Continue installing brother-mfc-5890cn ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
==>
[sudo] password for maurizio:
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) brother-mfc-5890cn-1.1.2-2
Total Installed Size: 3.21 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [#####################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [#####################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [#####################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [#####################################] 100%
(1/1) installing brother-mfc-5890cn [#####################################] 100%
Restart CUPS to load the new files
You can now register your new printer using the web interface at:
http://localhost:631/
