brother 2040 printer - where's lpadmin?

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Thu Jun 15 22:58:02 UTC 2006


* Troy Piggins <troy at piggo.com> :
> Followed this thread [1] in the ubuntuforums when I installed my printer
> on Breezy.  Just tried it again for Dapper and getting error at the
> cups wrapper install stage:
> 
> $ sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperhl2040_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 27236 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Preparing to replace cupswrapperhl2040 1.0.0-1 (using
> cupswrapperhl2040_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
> /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0: line 22:
> lpadmin: command not found
>  * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
>    ...done.
> Unpacking replacement cupswrapperhl2040 ...
> Setting up cupswrapperhl2040 (1.0.0-1) ...
> rm -f /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperHL2040
>  * Stopping LPRNG printer spooler lpd
>    ...done.
>  * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
>    ...done.
> /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0: line 488:
> lpadmin: command not found
> 
> Any ideas?  I can't find the package lpadmin is in.  I installed lpr
> and lprng with no luck.
> 
> [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=123539

Never mind.  I had installed cupsys but not cupsys-client.  That
fixed it.

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Troy Piggins
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