Brother DCP-J140W missing files

[MarkYork]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to make my DPC-J140W printer work. I tried following instructions in this wiki page, installed CUPS, downloaded and installed drivers from Bother's web page, and checked if the printer was added in cups. Everything looks good, the scanner works, with the exception that cups is reporting a missing file:

Idle - "File "/usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperdcpj140w" not available: No such file or directory"

Anyone here experienced this issue?

[charles17]

I'm trying to make my DPC-J140W printer work.

According to this information it is a networked printer.
So why are you trying to install a printer driver instead of going https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing?

[ct85711]

If you are worried about the missing filter file, I found a FreeBSD thread that is dicussing this file (where it comes from and stuff). Be sure to take the info with a grain of salt (that forum isn't for linux), but it could help give you something to look at.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/any- ... ork.38655/

[paluszak]

Does this file (ie. /usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperdcpj140w) exist? I suspect you have a 64-bit system? Are you on multilib profile?

[ian.au]

@MarkMan

Idle - "File "/usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperdcpj140w" not available: No such file or directory"

I 've had a few brother printers, and seen this error before. My guess: The file is probably installed in /opt/brother/Printers, but the symlink hasn't been created.

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tree /opt/brother/Printers

should show what's installed and where. I just manually recreate the missing filter symlink, restart cups and you should get a test page.

If it isn't obvious to you from the above tree output which file(s) you need to symlink, post the output of

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 ls -al /usr/libexec/cups/filter | grep .-\>

and I'll take a look for you.