On 16 April 2012 11:23, Dale Dellutri daledellutri@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dave Cross davorg@gmail.com wrote:
My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16.
It's a wireless printer, so I've set it up, connected it to my network and got it working using a Windows PC. My Fedora desktop can see it on the next work, but it appears that foomatic doesn't have a PPD for this model of printer, so I've been scouring the internet.
This README file (http://downloads.dell.com/printer/R247660_Readme.txt) talks about a file called dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.rpm.sh.tar.gz which installs a bunch of PPDs for Dell printers in /usr/dellinkjet/dell09/etc/. The list includes dlP513w.ppd, which is the PPD for my printer. However, the only file that I can find is http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails?DriverId=R247660&... which only includes the .deb version of the package, not the .rpm one.
I've asked Dell support for help, but I thought I'd ask here too. Has anyone had this problem or (even better) solved it? Is it possible to extract the PPD from the .deb version of the file?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Google search for .deb extractor gives: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/
Yeah. If I could get to the .deb I'd be fine. But the download is a shell script that generates and installs a .deb - and, obviously, it won't run successfully on my Fedora box.
However, I've just discovered that the shell script has a --keep option that doesn't delete the extracted contents once the script has finished. And that has given me access to the .deb. So we seem to be good now - although I won't be able to confirm until I get back to my desktop tonight.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Dave...