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Lexmark prospect pro205 driver problem
I am running Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) (and compatible with Linux Ubuntu 10.04.) I am running it on an AMD64 system.
I have purchased a Lexmark Prospect printer, model pro-205. (My decision to purchase was of course heavily influenced by Lemark listing this computer as compatible with its Linux driver for this printer.
I downloaded the Lexmark driver [ lexmark-inkjet-09-driver-1.5-1.i386.deb.sh ] and attempted an initial install of the printer, but the driver install is telling me it can't install because I have an AMD 64 rather than an i386 system.
Does anyone know how I could modify this driver to load on an AMD 64 system?
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Unfortunately I do not see any options for a 64-bit compliant driver for that printer from the vendor. As as I looked at the contents of the shell script they supplies for 32-bit installations is became apparent that is is spawning binary files rather than scripts which makes is very hard to attempt to modify.
I know that some distros have a 32-bit compatibility mode patches that will allow 32-bit applications to be run on 64-bit systems, if you can find how to enable it in Mint then you can get the drivers to work.0 -
Most current 64bit linux systems will run 32bit applications and some 32bit drivers just fine, however some drivers like this one are probably trying to load or link to 32-bit system libraries which in some cases are in /usr/lib32, where /usr/lib is the 64 bit repository, so when it tries to get a 32-bit library from /usr/lib, it finds the 64-bit versions. Since the installation script checks for the machine type (uname --machine), if finds AMD64 or x86_64 instead of i386 and figures it cannot go further without problems. You might be able to edit the installation script to fix this, assuming you have a reasonable knowledge of shell programming. FWIW, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and derivatives such as CentOS) put 32bit libraries in /usr/lib, and 64bit ones in /usr/lib64, for just the reasons I explained above.0
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I am also running Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) (and compatible with Linux Ubuntu 10.04.) I am running it on an AMD64 system.
I have purchased a Lexmark Prospect printer, model pro-205. (My decision to purchase was of course heavily influenced by Lemark listing this computer as compatible with its Linux driver for this printer.
I downloaded the Lexmark driver [ lexmark-inkjet-09-driver-1.5-1.i386.deb.sh ] and attempted an initial install of the printer, but the driver is't installing
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The driver you are listing is for 32-bit systems, is you mint installation 32-bit or 64-bit?0
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