Which I also fixed by creating the directories manually using the mkdir command. I also enabled 32bit architecture by running sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386.Īfter doing so (not in the instructions) the installation runs through without any error except: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/spool/lpd/printername’: No such file or directoryĬhown: cannot access '/var/spool/lpd/printername': No such file or directory Note that printing works like a charm and iirc for that I didn't have to do the following however: CUPS would detect the printer and I would be able to print with airprint. Ii mfcj265wlpr:i386 1.1.3-1 i386 Brother lpr Inkjet Printer Definitions I would install the drivers (LPR & CUPSWrapper) from brothers website. On older Debian (6.0 or earlier) or Ubuntu (11.04 or earlier), install the following package. Since Brother printer drivers are developed for 32-bit Linux, you need to install necessary 32-bit libraries on 64-bit Linux as follows. Ii mfcj265wcupswrapper:i386 1.1.3-1 i386 Brother CUPS Inkjet Printer Definitions Before proceeding to run the installer file, you need to do one additional step if you are using a 64-bit Linux system. Ii brscan3 0.2.13-1 amd64 Brother Scanner Driver In addition I also tried gscan2pdf instead of Simple Scan which shows me 'No devices found'.Īfter proper (64bit) installation dpkg -l | grep Brother shows me: ii brscan-skey 0.2.4-1 amd64 Brother Linux scanner S-KEY tool When installing the 32bit Scan-key-tool I get: brscan-skey:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1) even though I have the latest libc6 and libc6-i386 installed. I also tried installing 'Scanner driver 64bit' separately which didn't help.Īnd after all of that I also tried to install the 32bit Scanner driver and Scan-key-tool even though I have a 64bit machine.

You need to install driver software for your scanner.

However when I try to scan with Simple Scan I get: For this I had to select my model on the Brother homepage and install the Driver Install Tool by following their instructions on the site. So I have a MFC-J265W Brother printer (connected via USB) and got it to print under Debian 9.0 64bit.

Brother printer install debian 9