Brother HR-5240 printer cups error (no such file or directory)

Hello,

  • OpenMandriva Lx version: 5.0

  • Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): KDE

  • Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
    I have a Brother HR-5240 Laser Printer, I’ve used it for ages and have run it no problem on Ubuntu.

After installing OM the printer ‘installs’ no problem and looks to be configured, and I can command it to “print Self-Test Page” successfully, however any attempt to send it something to print (Including the “Print Test Page” button right next to the self-test page) it comes up with the error: "There was an error during the cups operation: ‘No such file or directory’

I tried installing “brlaser” as recommended from the open mandriva wiki how-tos

but dnf errors with “no match for brlaser” error, I even tried copy-pasting from the page to make sure I wasn’t miss-spelling.

  • Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
    Printer: Brother HR-5240
    Computer: HP Probook 4540

afaik brlaser is not in 5.0 but you can install ROME, or 6.0 soon (soon means almost right now :wink: )

Instructions for 6.0 system will follow somewhere else.