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Need a printer driver for a Dell720

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Tried to use links from this question/19410 for drivers for a Lexmarkz600 but they seems not to work. Missing dependencies.
Can you off any other links?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsusb

Thanks

For the Z600:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49714

The Dell will more thank likely be a rebadged Lexmark, Dell do that a LOT

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Tynut (tynut) said : 		#2

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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Tynut (tynut) said : 		#3

I have tried to install this a few times and always get this error message:

$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
Warning: alien is not running as root!
Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong.
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package z600cups: postinst postrm preinst
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
z600cups-1.0.tgz generated
mom@mom-laptop:~$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
Warning: alien is not running as root!
Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong.
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package z600llpddk: postinst postrm preinst prerm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
z600llpddk-2.0.tgz generated

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Tynut (tynut) said : 		#4

mom@mom-laptop:~$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C
[sudo] password for mom:
tar: option requires an argument -- C
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
mom@mom-laptop:~$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C
tar: option requires an argument -- C
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
mom@mom-laptop:~$ sudo ldconfig
mom@mom-laptop:~$ cd /usr/share/cups/model
bash: cd: /usr/share/cups/model: No such file or directory
mom@mom-laptop:~$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
gzip: Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz: No such file or directory

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

alien needs tobe ran with sudo.

so you will need

sudo alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm

rather than just

alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm

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Tynut (tynut) said : 		#6

So ready to give up. Will try again from beginning but so far no luck.

mom@mom-laptop:~$ sudo alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package z600cups: postinst postrm preinst
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
z600cups-1.0.tgz generated
mom@mom-laptop:~$ sudo alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package z600llpddk: postinst postrm preinst prerm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
z600llpddk-2.0.tgz generated

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

ok now extract z600cups-1.0.tgz and z600cups-2.0.tgz and see what you get.

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