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 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.

  ah, that's obviously after you added the appropriate entry to
/etc/apt/sources.list.  i'll try that later today, thanks.

rday

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