Dell p513w with Fedora 16

[Dale Dellutri]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been
> trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16.
>
> It's a wireless printer, so I've set it up, connected it to my network
> and got it working using a Windows PC. My Fedora desktop can see it on
> the next work, but it appears that foomatic doesn't have a PPD for
> this model of printer, so I've been scouring the internet.
>
> This README file
> (http://downloads.dell.com/printer/R247660_Readme.txt) talks about a
> file called dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.rpm.sh.tar.gz which
> installs a bunch of PPDs for Dell printers in
> /usr/dellinkjet/dell09/etc/. The list includes dlP513w.ppd, which is
> the PPD for my printer. However, the only file that I can find is
> http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails?DriverId=R247660&FileId=2731129294&DriverName=Dell%20Photo%20P513W%20AIO%20Inkjet%20Printer%2C%20A00
> which only includes the .deb version of the package, not the .rpm one.
>
> I've asked Dell support for help, but I thought I'd ask here too. Has
> anyone had this problem or (even better) solved it? Is it possible to
> extract the PPD from the .deb version of the file?
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave...
>
> --
> Dave Cross :: dave at dave.org.uk
> http://dave.org.uk/
> @davorg

Google search for
  .deb extractor
gives:
  http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/

-- 
Dale Dellutri