[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring Brother MFC-7360N on Hipster How?

[Richard L. Hamilton]

A package containing rpm utilities seems to be available for OpenIndiana.

I don't expect that it would be able to install an RPM file, but one or more of those utilities should be able to list or extract or convert to say cpio an RPM file. In which case all you would need to do is first list it to find the name of the contained file you wanted, and then do whatever it took to extract just that, and then whatever else to install the PPD file.

Not having a working OpenIndiana VM right now, I can't tell you more than that.


> On May 31, 2025, at 17:28, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> Brother provides .rpm and .deb files for the printer which is attached via wired ethernet.
> The OI printer database doesn't include a driver.  Brother only offers .rpm and .deb files for Linux and then various files for MacOS X by release.
> 
> Is there an OI native way to extract the PPD from a .rpm or .deb file and install it on Hipster 2024.10?
> 
> Reg
> 
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