Brother Printer

Issues & Assistance
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I love Garuda. It looks good and works well too.
I installed it today and got most everything working. I love how it is organized.
It is very user-friendly, however, the last stage of my setup today is installing my Brother MFC-J825DW printer and here I have hit a roadblock.
Brother only supplies .deb or RPM packages for the drivers.
Is there any way I can install this printer?
I have used other distros that work with those packages, but this is the first distro that I ventured to install that uses Pacman.
If I can't install the printer then I will have to use Garuda as an occasional system whereas if I got it going it would be my 1st choice :slight_smile:

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Its available on aur

You can install it with

pamac build brother-mfc-j825dw
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And

:slight_smile:

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I was having trouble with my Brother printer. I tried what was mentioned in the forum, and it was still broken.

in the terminal i ran;

cupsd

somehow that activated the cups server and i was able to connect.

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If no options are specified on the command-line then the default configuration file

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

will be used.

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cups service was renamed from
org.cups.cupsd

To simply cups

In the new. Version of cups package
You need to reenable it

systemctl enable cups.socket
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Thanks.
I used the command as you instructed then I unlocked the Printer settings and was able to add the printer. It was found and I just had to configure it with the IP address and I am good to go.
Thanks again.
Garuda is still looking good

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I just read this topic. Thank you very much, I just got cups working. It doesn’t have the right driver for my printer (HP 7100), but I’m pretty sure HP has that driver for linux :slight_smile:

Thank you again!

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…and it’s now printing, thanks to hplip which was available from octopi! Nice work, Devs!