Set-up a Samsung CLX-3185 printer/scanner on Ubuntu 16.04

mar. 10 novembre 2015

First of all, we have to add a server to the packages manager to get the needed packages for the set-up. This should be done with these commands:

sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/suldr.list'

sudo apt-get update

In the log messages returned by this command, you could see this one:

W: An error occurred during the signature verification.
The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.
GPG error: http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr debian 
InRelease: Les signatures suivantes n'ont pas pu être vérifiées car la clé publique n'est pas disponible : NO_PUBKEY C95104E509BAC46D  NO_PUBKEY FB510D557CC3E840

This is due to unauthenticated packages. To fix it, we have to add the authentication key of the added server with this command:

sudo apt-get install suldr-keyring

Then, you can run again the update command to check that the error doesn't occur:

sudo apt-get update

We can now install the printer/scanner driver with the following command:

sudo apt-get install suld-driver-4.01.17

The version number can evolve, so if the previous command shows you this packet doesn't exist, check if there is no upgraded version of it.