Linux

Brother Scanner Printer MFC-7460DN

Printer Driver Install

Fedora SilverBlue 40

1. Have MFC7460DN.ppd ready in your dowloads folder 

2. rpm-ostree install distrobox printer-driver-brlaser

3. reboot

4. Go to printer in the priner GUI and install/upload you ppd from the downloads folder.

5. reboot

What about  the scanner?

Mint (Ubuntu)

1. Install the standard c library for 32bit applications (e.g. lib32stdc++6(Debian) or ia32-libs(Ubuntu))

2. Extract and run this file as sudo.  It will install the scanner and printer files.

3. Printer Connection is:  socket://192.168.2.122:9100

4. The ppd file ends up at:  /user/share/ppd

Fedora

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc7460dn_all&os=127 - Do the Driver Install Tool this will do it all, printer, scanner, etc.

lsusb

[matt@localhost ~]$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:024e Brother Industries, Ltd 

Create/edit   /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local.rules containing:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",ATTR{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTR{idProduct}=="024e", MODE="0666"

udevadm control –-reload-rules

CentOS Printer Issues

Must install this in order to use the 32 bit Brother driver:    yum install glibc.i686

OpenSUSE:     zypper install glibc-32bit

Scanner Install

Instructions:  http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1b.html

Driver: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_scn.html

1. Install this driver:

2. Command to register the printer:

matt@mattPC ~ $ sudo brsaneconfig4  -a  name=scanny  model=MFC-7460DN  ip=192.168.2.122

matt@mattPC ~ $ 

Puppy Linux Printer Install

Install the Brother_MFC-7460DN-2

1. Install the 2 .deb files from Dropbox.  Yes.  It works for Slackware

2. Copy the .ppd file to /usr/share/ppd/ (from Dropbox)

3. Install from CUPS http://localhost:631/

Openbox - No Decoration for an Application

/home/username/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

<applications>

    <application name="firefox-bin">

      <decor>no</decor>

      <maximized>yes</maximized>

    </application>

</applications>

Auto insert Date Time

bash -c 'sleep 0.3 && xdotool type "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%SZ)"'

LVM Disk Management

https://www.tecmint.com/extend-and-reduce-lvms-in-linux/

2. Command to register the printer:

matt@mattPC ~ $ sudo brsaneconfig4  -a  name=scanny  model=MFC-7460DN  ip=192.168.2.122

matt@mattPC ~ $