difficulty installing dell v313w printer scanner

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difficulty installing dell v313w printer scanner

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I am just starting to use linux mint and have installed release 13, Xfce 32-bit edition. I am enthusiastic about moving to linux from Microsoft windows XP. But I know little about it and my questions are very 'newbie'.

The problem I am posting about here concerns trying to install my Dell printer v313w. I found a driver for it here:
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/...iverId=R247655

I managed to download the file, to extract the files, and then tried to run this file:
dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb

Everything started fine but then I got an error message that a problem was encountered during installation. The text in the installer window is as copied below.

I thought, OK, there seems to be a problem about a blank line, so this is open source software, so maybe I can just find that line and edit it, so I tried opening it with gedit, which sounds like the right idea, but nothing happened.

So I am now appealing for help!

John

Extracting file: dxdbuspolicy.te
Extracting file: dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
Extracting file: jre-6u12-linux-i586.bin
Extracting file: launcher_87b076ac_5714_4095_b8ae_c17133910651
Extracting file: dxlpia.sh
Extracting file: dxnet.te

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Execute: sleep 3

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Execute: dpkg -i dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1

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Execute: dpkg -i dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb 2>&1 | tee /home/john/lua_7PfgZV/installerror_msgs

dpkg: error processing dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb (--install):
parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 9 package 'dell-inkjet-09-driver':
blank line in value of field 'Description'
Errors were encountered while processing:
dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
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dpkg: error processing dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb (--install): parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 9 package 'dell-inkjet-09-driver': blank line in value of field 'Description'Errors were encountered while processing: dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
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Execute: rm -rf /home/john/lua_7PfgZV

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Re: difficulty installing dell v313w printer scanner

Post by jmontaguebaker »

I should add that I have also posted this query in linuxquestions.org. I have made a bit of progress as a result of a helpful reply there but have hit further problems, detailed at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ost5145903.

(As far as I could tell, posting in an entirely different site is not against the rules or bad ettiquette, but please let me know if it is.)

thanks,
John
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