I couldn't get the ubuntu packaged Brother drivers to work at all.
I got a tool from Brother's website. That installed the printer, worked
perfectly.
I downloaded the brscan2 and brscan-keytool from brother's website. At
first this didn't work. but a strace showed why. the problem here
isn't the drivers its the libraries, no matter what they have to be in
/usr/lib/ not /usr/lib64/
this cant be a brother problem they have no control where simple scan and the
like look for libraries. I re-ran ldconfig but no help. Had to link.
Here is how i fixed it. It is just listing the files in the deb, finding the
libs and linking the /usr/lib64/files to /usr/lib/
for i in `dpkg -c brscan2-0.2.5-1.amd64.deb | awk '/lib/{gsub(/^\./,"",$6);
print $6}'`; do
file=`basename $i`; newdir=`dirname $i | sed -e 's/64//'`;
sudo ln -sf $i $newdir/$file;
done
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Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install
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