How to install printer driver from RPM on Ubuntu?

[Charlie Zender]

Thank you for the rmp2cpio command, now:

> and then just copy ppd file to cups ppd directory

which is where, exactly?

zender at neige:/usr/share/cups$ ls
banners        charmaps  data      drv       fonts   mime  profiles
calibrate.ppm  charsets  doc-root  examples  locale  ppdc  templates
zender at neige:/usr/share/cups$ find . -name '*.ppd'
zender at neige:/usr/share/cups$

Le 15/04/2011 12:18, Eero Volotinen a écrit :
> 2011/4/15 Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu>:
>> 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?
> 
> how about unpacking rpm package using following commands:
> 
> rpm2cpio mypackage.rpm | cpio -vid
> 
> and then just copy ppd file to cups ppd directory
> 
> --
> Eero
> 
> 


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Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science
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