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running Ux64 but printer driver is i386

Asked by Steve Smith

 I was tech support for windows hardware issues but am still learning the superior OS of Ubuntu. Brother only offers the i386 driver for my printer so is there a way to get the i386 driver to work in Ubuntu x64? Thanks!

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#1

I do not believe Brother offers x64 drivers for much of their old stuff. But the 32 bit drivers do work.

Give it a go.

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Steve Smith (yirmiah) said : 		#2

This is a new printer, the HL3040. There is a Linux 32 driver but the package manager gives the error, "Wrong Architecture i386". Is there a way to try to get by this error? In Windows you can force a driver to see if it will work, how is that done in Ubuntu?
Thanks!

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Sharky (clhsharky) said : 		#3

Do you have ia32-lib package installed?

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Steve Smith (yirmiah) said : 		#4

I'll check. I'm guessing that is the 32 bit layer used by the 64 bit system. Thanks for taking the time to help! I'll update the status after I check if that lib file is installed.

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Steve Smith (yirmiah) said : 		#5

The ia32-lib package is installed. I even reinstalled it, rebooted, and tried to install the brother printer driver again... and got the same results, "wrong Architecture i386". Any other ideas?
Thanks!

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#6

You can try force installing it anyway; the actual package contents that do the core work I believe ar noarch anyway.

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