How do I install Brother printer drivers?

Have read previous answers and they do not solve my problem. I downloaded Brother printer drivers. From file cabinet search found Downloads, Properties show it went to /home/myname/Downloads. Confirmed it did download by terminal command ls Downloads.

Upon terminal command:

myname@myname-computername:~$ cd DownloadsEnter

It returns this line:

myname@myname-computername:~/Downloads$

I have made sure of spelling, case, spacing, tried cycling through other directories and still get nothing. What exactly am I supposed to type after the :~$?

Brother instructions are:

• Download the tool (linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz).
• Go to directory you downloaded the file to in the last step. By using the cd command. e.g. cd Downloads

• Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:

  gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz

  e.g.

  gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1.gz

etc, etc

1 Answer

1. Open the terminal and change directories using cd to the Downloads directory.

   cd Downloads 

   The command prompt will change after running this command to show the new current working directory (~/Downloads).

2. List the contents of the Downloads directory to show the name of the Brother printer driver archive that you downloaded.

   ls 

3. Extract the contents of the Brother printer driver archive that you downloaded.

   gunzip name-of-brother-driver.gz # replace name-of-brother-driver.gz with the name of the driver archive that you downloaded

   You can copy the name of the Brother printer driver archive that you downloaded from the results of ls in step 2 and paste it into the command in step 3 instead of name-of-brother-driver.gz.