How to install printer driver from RPM on Ubuntu?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

fre 2011-04-15 klockan 18:46 -0400 skrev Mark Ramige:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 17:15, Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu> wrote:
> > 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.

You could use alien to convert RPM⇨DEB and then install the DEB:
Alien is in the standard repositories and can be installed with the
software centre, synaptic or in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install alien


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Best regards

Johnny Rosenberg