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

[Pierre Meurisse]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:19:03AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
>   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.
> 
I installed :

pier at asusid~% aptitude search samsung |grep "^i"               
i A samsungmfp-configurator-data    - Samsung Unified Driver Configurator (data)
i   samsungmfp-configurator-qt4     - Samsung Unified Driver Configurator (Qt4 i
i   samsungmfp-data                 - Samsung Unified Linux Driver (data)       
i   samsungmfp-driver-3.00.65       - Samsung Unified Linux Driver (drivers)    
i   samsungmfp-legacy-scanner       - transitional package for samsungmfp-scanne
i A samsungmfp-network              - Samsung Unified Driver Configurator (netwo
i A samsungmfp-scanner              - Samsung Unified Linux Driver (enable scann
pier at asusid~% 

and I found :

pier at asusid~% dpkg -L samsungmfp-driver-3.00.65| grep libmfp.so         
/usr/lib/libmfp.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib/libmfp.so
/usr/lib/libmfp.so.1
pier at asusid~%  

Hope this works for you.

-- 
Pierre Meurisse