On 4/6/22 19:10, tastytea wrote:
On 2022-04-06 19:05-0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM <the...@sys-concept.com
<mailto:the...@sys-concept.com>> wrote:
Does anybody have this printer?
Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?
Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.
I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from
brother-overlay
<https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay> as a
template. The closest to your printer would likely be
brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild
<https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay/blob/master/net-print/brother-hll8350cdw-bin/brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild>.
Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of
SRC_URI to match the download URI used to download the driver(s)
from the Brother website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to
"hll6200dw".
This is a good idea. I've the files (modified them):
brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild and metadata.xml
My only question is which directory to put them in? I think:
/usr/local/portage/(something)
That's described in
<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Creating_an_ebuild_repository>. In short:
eselect repository create <repository_name>
I just tired generic brother printer and it works perfectly.
emerge --ask net-print/brother-genml1-bin
No need to complicate installation of specific driver.
