Installing Brother MFC5860CN printer on Ubuntu
Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn detected this printer, but it didin’t work. Here is what I did to get it working:
Delete the existing printer:
Open a web broswer and wet to CUPS management URL: http://localhost:631 -> Administration -> Manage Printers, then deleted the MFC printer.
Followed these instructions and downloaded:
mfc5860cnlpr-1.0.0-9.i386.deb mfc5860cncupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb
Installed:
dpkg -i mfc5860cnlpr-1.0.0-9.i386.deb Produces errors - these can be safely ignored: mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/lpd/mfc5860cn’: No such file or directory chown: cannot access `/var/spool/lpd/mfc5860cn’: No such file or directory chgrp: cannot access `/var/spool/lpd/mfc5860cn’: No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/var/spool/lpd/mfc5860cn’: No such file or directory dpkg -i mfc5860cncupswrapper-1.0.0-10.i386.deb
Printer was now listed in printer list and just worked after that.