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Today I wanted to print something from my Arch Linux Box I quickly discover I don’t have the drivers for the printer installed. No problem, I’ll just check the Arch Repos/the AUR for the driver. There is no driver. … Whelp, guess I have to do it myself, but I have no idea how… As per usual the Arch Wiki has a guide for packaging brother printer drivers that are otherwise .deb or .rpm. Guide lacks some important points but I was able to figure them out by intuition/research. Driver works. Now it can’t find the printer even after showing it and me adding it, when I finally need to print. Printer Local Name Resolution is for some reason borked, I presume via some bug or something. But I just use an IP address and it’s all good. Then I figure out how to configure submitting the package for the AUR. Success!

Arch Linux Rabbit Holes may be time consuming, but I learned a LOT today, and actually contributed to my Linux Distribution :)