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Linux and Brother Printer More Help Please,


Maybole

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Having recently installed a Linux Mint OS on an older laptop, I find that I cannot tie in my printer.

It is a Brother DCP-T300  3 years old and the installation disc does not supply drivers for Linux systems. 

I have downloaded and saved dcpt300cupswrapper-3.0.2-0.i386.deba driver for the printer but not yet the scanner, but the installation tool asks for a "Device URI" I have been unable to find out what this is.

Experts, please enlighten me and/or point me at a simpler method,

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Um, google search, maybe?  When I did I got:

 

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=th&lang=en&prod=dcpt300_all

 

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Hint:

Linux distributions are mainly divided into two packaging formats: rpm and deb. Distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, Fedora and CentOS are based on rpm, while the Debian family, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS are based on deb.Jun 16, 2016

 

Also:

The support.brother.com dialog box gave me a stupid error message when initially selecting Linux (deb) option. Just close it and select "English" in the dropdown. 
 

No drivers, utilities, and firmware are available in your language.
Close this message screen, and then select the language from the language drop-down list.
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