Brother 1440 printer on Fedora Core 4

[Neil Cherry]

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> Help! I need my printer (Brother 1440). I've already spent two days
> trying to get it up. I've learned a good bit about how printing works on
> Linux, but haven't had success. (This printer always ran automatically
> with my old Mandrake 10.1 install.)
> 
> I've just installed Core 4 on a Sony PCG-SRX77. (I also installed
> (server installation) on a Dell OptiPlex, but I haven't tried to get the
> printer going there yet.)
> 
> Brother has two drivers, one for lpd and one as a
> "cupswrapper" (whatever that is). The lpd rpm needs to be installed
> before the cupswrapper rpm. When I tried to install the lpd rpm I got
> this error message:
> 
>     /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48389: line 2: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file or 
>        directory
>     error: %post(hl1440lpr-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 
>       127

Before installing the lpd driver you need to link lpd to cups in
/etc/init.d. Then install the lpd driver. Then install the
cups driver.

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