Install Brother Printer DCP-T500W Driver on Manjaro Linux

Tried On:

Manjaro KDE 20 [official edition]

Kernel 5.6

Brother Printer DCP-T500W

Dependencies:

lib32-glibc [3]

More detail information can be read here:

[1] Printing - Manjaro Wiki

[2] CUPS - Archlinux Wiki

[3] Packaging Brother printer drivers - Archlinux Wiki

[4] Brother DCP-T500W Download Page

Brother Printer Driver build from rpm is already on AUR package > brother-dcpt500w 3.0.2-1, you can install it directly if you want. But here, we are going to try how to install it manually from deb driver. In Linux, for printing you need cups and LPR. We will build each package for cupswrapper and LPR.

• Make a PKGBUILD for CUPS wrapper from DEB [4]

• Make a PKGBUILD for LPR from DEB [4]
  

• Save each PKGBUILD in suitable package/folder
  

We arrange the files like this.

deb and pkg.tar.xz files will be created after next step.

• build package

makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO
makepkg -Acs

• install package

sudo pacman -U brother-dcpt500w-cups-bin.pkg.tar.xz

sudo pacman -U brother-dcpt500w-lpr-bin.pkg.tar.xz

• Run the shell script from installed driver

cd /opt/brother/Printers/dcpt500w/cupswrapper

sudo ./cupswrapperdcpt500w

Now the driver should be ready. We can add our printer [1] and print a test page.

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