setting up a brother inkjet all-in-one on Focal Fossa

[Joel Rees]

Thanks to everyone who responded.

2021年9月13日(月) 19:38 Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>:

> Hi Joel,
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> Could you list the output of these two commands from the Bionic Beaver
> workstations and your Daughter's workstation?
> uname -a
> lsb_release -a
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Linux oi 5.11.0-34-generic #36~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 27 08:06:32 UTC
2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal


> Do you have the lsb package installed?
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It wasn't, but it is now, and she still gets connection errors.

It may be that the 32-bit emulation layer and drivers that the Brother
script installed are causing conflicts. I'll check that next.

It might be needed. According to Synaptic:-
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> *"The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/
> <http://www.linuxbase.org/>) is a standardcore system that third-party
> applications written for Linux candepend upon.This package provides an
> implementation of only the printing and coremodules of the Linux Standard
> Base for Ubuntu.  Recent versions of Ubuntudo not implement the full LSB
> interfaces; this package is provided only forcompatibility with third-party
> printer driver packages which depend on thelsb package.The intent of this
> package is to provide a best current practice wayof installing and running
> LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux. Its presencedoes not imply that Ubuntu
> fully complies with the Linux Standard Base,and should not be construed as
> a statement that Ubuntu is LSB-compliant."*
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> Whilst playing around with two donated old Epson printer/scanners, I found
> that one of them installed perfectly without any extra software being
> required. The other one would not install but, after I installed package
> lsb, it installed perfectly.
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Thanks again,

Joel Rees

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