Re: Dell p513w with Fedora 16
On 16 April 2012 11:23, Dale Dellutri <daledellutri(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dave Cross <davorg(a)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=R2476...
> 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...
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