Lexmark Installer Issues

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The Lexmark printer installer is known to fail in Ubuntu 12.04.


To install X5070 Series, X7600 Series, X6600 Series, X5600 Series, Z2400 Series, X4900 Series, X4600 Series, and X3600 Series Lexmark printers enter the following commands into a terminal. This method was taken from the ask Ubuntu website.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch xz-lzma
wget http://downloads.lexmark.com/downloads/cpd/lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh.tar.gz -O lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh.tar.gz
tar xzvf lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh.tar.gz
./lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh --noexec --target lexmark
cd lexmark
tar xJvf instarchive_all
dpkg-deb -I lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
mkdir raw-lexmark-archive
dpkg-deb --raw-extract lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb raw-lexmark-archive
sed -i "/^ $/d" raw-lexmark-archive/DEBIAN/control
cat raw-lexmark-archive/DEBIAN/control
dpkg-deb -b ./raw-lexmark-archive fixed-lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i fixed-lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb

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