How do I install Brother printer drivers?

Question

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

cd means change-directory. It worked as your default directory which was "~" (which is shorthand for /home/$USER or your /home/myname/ as you typed it) was changed to ~/Downloads, ie. your present.working.directory is /home/myname/Downloads (or $HOME/Downloads). cd or change-directory did its job, what did you expect it to do? (cd does the same as windows; microsoft used the xenix (their name for unix pre-msDOS days) command) — guiverc, Feb 17 '18 at 01:35
You may find further help here: How do I install proprietary drivers for my Brother all-in-one printer/scanner/fax? — dessert, Feb 17 '18 at 09:00

karel · Answer 1 · 2018-02-17T02:31:32.047

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

How do I install Brother printer drivers?

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