Hello all, Please Note, this question may or may not have a factual answer.
I’m looking into a new printer, I’m interested in this Brother printer: MFC-J1205W
I don’t understand what’s going on with this page from Brother USA:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj1205w_us&os=128&dlid=dlf105211_000&flang=4&type3=10556
This page talks about downloading the Scanner Setting file (deb package). However later in the directions the user is instructed to run this command: Command (for rpm) : dpkg -i (filename)
Perhaps rpm is a typo, perhaps it works just the same, however I find it confusing. Any thoughts would be welcome.
Thank you and respectfully yours, Zuer-coli
sudo dpkg -i is what you run to install a deb package in Ubuntu derived systems.
And the mention of rpm is probably a typo. Maybe a copy/paste kind of error if there are corresponding instructions for RPM-based Linux installations (i.e., Red Hat and affiliates).
Probably a typo, or more accurately copy-pasting without making all of the necessary changes.
However, I’d suggest using apt install ./brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.2-0.all.deb instead of dpkg -i. Using apt will bring in any dependencies needed by the driver, and also complain about any conflicts with existing packages.
The ./ tells apt should install from a file, instead of downloading the package from a repository. You can do ./Downloads/brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.2-0.all.deb or whatever to point to where the file actually is.
In this particular instance the package is probably just a text file that goes in udev.d, so using apt instead of dpkg will not matter, but using apt install ./ is a good habit to be in for installing packages saved as local files.