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Dell v313 printer on Ubuntu

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February 24, 2014 6:44:24 AM

I have a problem which should be trivial to fix but my google-fu is
I have installed a Dell V313 printer on a Dell laptop running Lubuntu 120.04 via USB cable. The printer drivers for the Dell are famously falkey so I have installed the Lexmark Legacy tarball & the system has installed it as a Lexmark S305. A test page has printed perfectly from the Print app BUT all attempts to print from any other programme (even plain vanilla ascii) result in a plain black sheet. I have obviously done something daft - it all seemed to go far too smooth.y - , but as I say, my google-fu is damaged.

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February 24, 2014 8:16:34 AM

stillblue said:
Uninstall printer. Right click user name in the top right, system settings, printers, delete.

Then install

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDeta...



Thanks stillblue.

I get an error telling me there is a blank line in the file description. I have managed to dig down far enough to confirm this but I don't have the knowledge to rebuild the file once I have corrected it, hence my trying the Lexmark work-round.

One is a mere leather worker :-)


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February 24, 2014 8:34:08 AM

Post the installation log so we can see the error...

Why did you think driver for other printer would work? Don't do that...
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February 24, 2014 9:36:13 AM

skittle said:
Post the installation log so we can see the error...

Why did you think driver for other printer would work? Don't do that...


As to why it might work, the printer is manufactured by Lexmark, and the Lexmark drivers are REPUTED to hasve worked with earlier versions of Ubuntu. BUt you can't believe everything you read on the internet. :-)

Logs:

DELL LINUX INSTALLER LOG:

Extracting file: dxdbuspolicy.te
Extracting file: dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
Extracting file: jre-6u12-linux-i586.bin
Extracting file: launcher_87b076ac_5714_4095_b8ae_c17133910651
Extracting file: dxlpia.sh
Extracting file: dxnet.te

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Execute: sleep 3

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Execute: dpkg -i dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1

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Execute: dpkg -i dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb 2>&1 | tee /home/byson/lua_Dh3NjF/installerror_msgs

dpkg: error processing dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb (--install):
parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 9 package 'dell-inkjet-09-driver':
blank line in value of field 'Description'
Errors were encountered while processing:
dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
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dpkg: error processing dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb (--install): parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 9 package 'dell-inkjet-09-driver': blank line in value of field 'Description'Errors were encountered while processing: dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
=============================
Execute: rm -rf /home/byson/lua_Dh3NjF

=============================


TERMINAL:

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing nixstaller.........................................................................................
Collecting info for this system...
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86
TRACKING IDENT = 140509
cpu speed = 2126 MHz
ram size = 1002.49609375 MB
hd avail = 1158 MB
dpkg: error processing dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb (--install):
parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 9 package 'dell-inkjet-09-driver':
blank line in value of field 'Description'
Errors were encountered while processing:
dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb


The error is in the control file in the .deb in the DENBIAN directory.
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February 24, 2014 11:40:50 AM

It appears that the Lexmark 08 drivers are so similar to the Dell 09 that thet even have the same parsing error. Solution was found here:

http://archbird.blogspot.co.nz/

I hadn't thought to google from that end :-)
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February 24, 2014 11:58:53 AM

relatively easy to fix. someone goofed in a config file and left blank space where none should be. in the file 'control".
just need to extract file, remove white space and add fixed file back.

this guy provided line by line instructions, though with lexmark driver. I inspected the dell driver and the same issue is present. Follow directions here and it will be fixed.
http://archbird.blogspot.com/2012/04/fix-error-blank-li...
(note that your file has dell in the name and not lexmark, so type accordingly)

make your control looks like this:
  1. [skittle@arch dell_printer]$ cat control
  2. Package: dell-inkjet-09-driver
  3. Version: 1.0-1
  4. Section: non-free
  5. Priority: optional
  6. Architecture: i386
  7. Installed-Size:
  8. Maintainer: build <build@linux>
  9. Description: Dell Series Drivers Package
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