How to install printer driver from RPM on Ubuntu?

Charlie Zender zender at uci.edu
Fri Apr 15 19:12:04 UTC 2011


Hi All,

I am trying to drive a Dell 5130cdn Color Laser Printer from a
Ubuntu 11.4 (beta) system. The closest driver Ubuntu offers is

Dell 5200M Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)

The printer works OK with that. It takes a _long time_ (minutes)
to print a page of color with this driver. Dell supplies, on
CDROM, a driver in RPM format.

Dell-5130cdn-Color-Laser-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

which would install exactly one file:

/usr/share/cups/model/Dell/Dell_5130cdn.ppd

How do I (1) extract this file from the RPM and (2) install it
on my Ubuntu system so my printer can use it?

Thanks!
Charlie
-- 
Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine (949) 891-2429 :)




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