How to install printer driver from RPM on Ubuntu?

[Eero Volotinen]

2011/4/15 Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu>:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to drive a Dell 5130cdn Color Laser Printer from a
> Ubuntu 11.4 (beta) system. The closest driver Ubuntu offers is
>
> Dell 5200M Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)
>
> The printer works OK with that. It takes a _long time_ (minutes)
> to print a page of color with this driver. Dell supplies, on
> CDROM, a driver in RPM format.
>
> Dell-5130cdn-Color-Laser-1.2-1.noarch.rpm
>
> which would install exactly one file:
>
> /usr/share/cups/model/Dell/Dell_5130cdn.ppd
>
> How do I (1) extract this file from the RPM and (2) install it
> on my Ubuntu system so my printer can use it?

how about unpacking rpm package using following commands:

rpm2cpio mypackage.rpm | cpio -vid

and then just copy ppd file to cups ppd directory

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Eero