How do I install an RPM

Goatee · Post by **Goatee** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 17:23

I have a brother MFC210C printer/scanner (don't care about the fax),
The drivers aren't included with 3.1,
They're not in portage,

It seems the only place you can get them is the brother download page:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

So I downladed the RPM's (there are also .deb files if that's easier).

Then I thought i'd install them but it seems that there are no programs to do this.

And when I tried to install kpackage it said that:

Error: the kde-base/kde-env package conflicts with another package;
the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together.
Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.

--pretend gives:

kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r2)

thanks for any help, or just for reading through.

ed · Post by ed » Wed Oct 18, 2006 17:40

Check you have the dependencies then:

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rpm -Uvih --nodeps [rpm-name]

This ignores dependencies as otherwise it'll fail because there will be no other RPM's in the database. You can easily use RPM in addition to other package management systems.

Goatee · Post by **Goatee** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 19:15

Tried it, think it worked, printer doesn't.

There must be more drivers in portage, I see only nvidia and ati!

san · Post by **san** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 13:38

Hi, testing Sabayon here at work, it's really nice, but then again I'm a long time Gentoo user!

Only thing is, I can't install RPM's. I get this message:

"error: cannot open packages database in /var/lib/rpm"

I've tried "rpmdb --rebuilddb" and re-emerge rpm, and change permissions on /var/lib/rpm/Packages, but nothing helps. I also tried --nodeps and --force, still same error message.

Is RPM broken on Sabayon 3.2?

Thanks for any help!

Post by **lxnay** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 14:36

Please avoid rpm and use http://www.linuxprinting.org's ppds as reference.

Those drivers are not for CUPS but for ancient LPR system. You should see if the latest beta/alpha/rc release of foomatic does include these drivers. They're released under the GPL by Brother, so, they'll be supported ASAP by the community.

san · Post by **san** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 19:53

Oh ok, I'm not talking about printing, but general rpm package installs. Sorry if I'm hijacking the thread, the topic just fits my question. Unfortunately some applications only come as a rpm (commercial in this case).

So we should avoid rpm? I would love to

but as mentioned it's not always possible. Is this only in Sabayon 3.2, and would it help to maybe downgrade rpm?

Thank you, and great job on this distro!

Goatee · Post by **Goatee** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 17:44

lxnay wrote:Please avoid rpm and use http://www.linuxprinting.org's ppds as reference.

Those drivers are not for CUPS but for ancient LPR system. You should see if the latest beta/alpha/rc release of foomatic does include these drivers. They're released under the GPL by Brother, so, they'll be supported ASAP by the community.

Linux printing recommends using the RPMs. There is an alternative .deb package. Would this be any better?

Dark_MaGe · Post by **Dark_MaGe** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 18:52

yes on the page you've send there's a link for the source drivers...so get them decompress...compile and install

ed · Post by ed » Fri Dec 08, 2006 20:46

Or you could use rpm2tgz to get the contained files.

Goatee · Post by **Goatee** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:13

The source drivers are only for some printers, not including mine.

I'm using an MFC210C, printing worked in suse 9.2 but scanning never did.

Is there any way to make an RPM list it's dependencies so I can see if I have satisfied them?