Bdtyktl

I'm trying to install the Lexmark X1290 printer on a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 system. I previously had this printer working flawlessly on a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04.

I'm following the instructions from http://www.trodrigues.net/wiki/linux:ubuntu:lexmark_x1290 and using the Z600 series driver from Lexmark.

Create a directory named lexmark and unpack the driver:

mkdir lexmark

tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz

Extract the driver from the install script:

tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz

And untar it:

tar -xvzf install.tar.gz

This generates 2 drivers (z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm and z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm) that then should be converted to .deb files with alien and installed with dpkg, but -as the filenames already indicate- the drivers are for 32-bit systems and not for 64-bit systems. Hence the error:

$ sudo dpkg -i z600cups_1.0-2_i386.deb 

dpkg: error processing z600cups_1.0-2_i386.deb (--install):

  package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)

  Errors were encountered while processing: z600cups_1.0-2_i386.deb

Any idea how I can get this to work?

I'm not familiar with this driver, but you could force the installation by running:

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i z600cups_1.0-2_i386.deb

It might still not work, but it's worth a try.

Here is additional information needed as of 2018 (that is, to install Lexmark X1290 printer on Ubuntu 18.04):

1. 
   

   The procedure fails at alien invocation on a 64-bit system:

   
   
   

   
   

   z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm is for architecture i386 ; the package cannot
   be built on this system

   
   

   
   
   

   I could "fool" it by converting to .tgz format first, then to .deb:

   
   
   

   sudo alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
   
   sudo alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
   
   sudo alien z600cups-1.0.tgz
   
   sudo alien z600llpddk-2.0.tgz
   
   

   
   
   

   After which the installation worked:

   
   
   

   sudo dpkg -i z600cups_1.0-2_all.deb 
   
   sudo dpkg -i z600llpddk_2.0-2_all.deb
   
   

   
   



2. The z600 backend and rastertoz600 filter need the 32-bit versions of specific libs. I had to install libstdc++5:i386, libcups2:i386 and libcupsimage2:i386.




3. After restarting CUPS, I did not have to manually select the PPD file. Model Z600 showed up in the list of Lexmark models.

(Steps taken on Linux Mint 19, based on Ubuntu 18.04)