anyone have the recipe for installing samsung scx-4826fn multifn ptr under 11.10?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Pierre Meurisse wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:27:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   every time i go to a new release of ubuntu, i have to fight with
> > this.  grrrrr.  here's where i'm starting:
> >
> > http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/detail/supportPrdDetail.do?menu=SP00&prd_ia_cd=&prd_mdl_cd=SCX-4826FN/XAA&prd_mdl_name=SCX-4826FN&srchword=SCX-4826FN%20|%20SCX-4826FN/XAA
> >
> > but following those instructions gives me a main configuration that
> > doesn't let me add anything.  if someone else has gone through this,
> > by all means, help me out.  there are days where i really, truly
> > *hate* samsung.
>
> I tried http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/
> It worked for me.

  i eventually ran across that site so i'll give it a shot later
today, thanks.  regarding what seems to be the problem with using
samsung's unified driver directly, i went through the standard
instructions which (allegedly) installed everything under
/opt/Samsung/mfp.

  so after the installation, i went to /opt/Samsung/mfp/bin, and
manually ran "Configurator", which brought up the main dialog -- so
far, so good.  but selecting "add printer" produced nothing.  so i
tried running the "printeradd" executable in that directory directly,
and got:

./printeradd: error while loading shared libraries: libmfp.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

  huh.  interesting.  so where should that shared lib come from?
turns out it *is* part of the zip file you can download from samsung,
but it is *not* installed anywhere that is accessible, so no surprise
that adding a printer quietly fails.

  i might try simply copying that library into an appropriate location
later (/opt/smfp-common/lib64 or elsewhere), but it's really grating
that this doesn't just work.

rday

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