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dski
If antiX now has a symbolic link like /usr/bin/lpr to /usr/bin/gtklp, read no further.
Pardon me for running something old — antiX 17 — but heck, I’m old. It happens to the best of us.
I hooked up a Brother HL-L2375DW laser printer through Ethernet, got the indicated software from Brother, found installation examples on the Web, and installed the software by the book (actually, books; everything contradicted everything else, and at least one example contradicted itself).
The installer asked if I wanted to print a test page, and I answered yes.
It failed, saying it couldn’t find lpr. WHAT?!? Isn’t this a Unix-like system?
I somehow found GtkLP and printed a test page, but terminal- and console-based operation is primary in my book, so I looked at the GtkLP man page. Buried in the verbiage are the phrases “If called as lp” and “If called as lpr.” Ah — a light dawned.
GtkLP seems to be part of CUPS. One would expect the CUPS packager to create the necessary symlinks, but as the packager now seems to be Apple, Inc., there seems to be little hope of support for us command-line weenies. This might be a job for the system integrator.
On the Mac, Ctrl didn't exist; in Windows, Ctrl-A through Ctrl-Z did virtually nothing. From 1985 on, the choice was clear: you could get the full benefit of the most basic standard of computing, or you could use a GUI and a crippled keyboard and become this or that vendor's slave. I chose WordStar. LIVE FREE OR DIE.
ModdIt
hi dski, the brother driver should have installed a version of LPR. The US website has best instructions.
For my printer I had to create a symling before driver install.If you follow what is happening to cups in debian, so called driverless printing as a standard it looks like many
trusty older printerss will either no longer function or be tricky to install.
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