Brother printer drivers in Lucid are 2.5 years out-of-date
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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brother-cups-wrapper-laser (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: brother-
I have compared driver versions in this package (and the related package brother-
The drivers in the two packages in Lucid date from July 2007 (version 2.0.1-1). The Brother website includes drivers up to November 2009 (version 2.0.4-1).
The copyright implications of including these drivers in Ubuntu was discussed extensively in Bug 25966.
openprinting.org recommends using Brother's own Postscript drivers, at least with models closely related to my own recently-puchased HL-5370DW.
.deb packages are available directly from Brother's website; using those packages, however, carries all the customary disadvantages of going outside Ku/Ubuntu's own package repositories.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 19 23:43:58 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: brother-
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: brother-
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686
since submitting above, have discovered following on Ubuntu wiki: /wiki.ubuntu. com/HardwareSup portComponentsP rintersBrother
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