Hello @manuel I do not want you thinking I missed your reply. The release via AUR which is from 2015 does not seem to work. In fact it seems to freeze out. I should have explained this.
yay -S brother-mfc-l2740dw
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+# Maintainer: David Waldeck < mail at david-waldeck dot de
+pkgname="brother-mfc-l2740dw"
+pkgver="3.2.0"
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-l2740DW"
+url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/"
+arch=("i686" "x86_64")
+license=('custom:brother commercial license')
+depends=("cups")
+depends_x86_64=('lib32-glibc')
+install="$pkgname.install"
+source=(
+ "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101729/mfcl2740dwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
+ "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101728/mfcl2740dwcupswrapper-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
+)
+md5sums=(
+ 'e4e27264d8255274c6ad8af1e65588b7'
+ '399fde3fff6c41338b0fe84517f7148b'
+)
+prepare() {
+ # do not install in '/usr/local'
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diff --git /home/liveuser/.cache/yay/brother-mfc-l2740dw/PKGBUILD /home/liveuser/.cache/yay/brother-mfc-l2740dw/PKGBUILD
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+# Maintainer: David Waldeck < mail at david-waldeck dot de
+pkgname="brother-mfc-l2740dw"
+pkgver="3.2.0"
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-l2740DW"
+url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/"
+arch=("i686" "x86_64")
+license=('custom:brother commercial license')
+depends=("cups")
+depends_x86_64=('lib32-glibc')
+install="$pkgname.install"
+source=(
+ "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101729/mfcl2740dwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
+ "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101728/mfcl2740dwcupswrapper-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
+)
+md5sums=(
+ 'e4e27264d8255274c6ad8af1e65588b7'
+ '399fde3fff6c41338b0fe84517f7148b'
+)
+prepare() {
+ # do not install in '/usr/local'
+ if [ -d $srcdir/usr/local/Brother ]; then
+ install -dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share"
+ mv "$srcdir/usr/local/Brother/" "$srcdir/usr/share/brother"
+ rm -rf "$srcdir/usr/local"
+ sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/brother|g' `grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' ./`
+ fi
+
+ # create cups-directories
+ install -dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/cups/model"
+ install -dm755 "$srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter"
+
+ # copy ppd and filter file to their destination dirs
+ cd `find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper'`
+ cp *lpdwrapper* "$srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/"
+ cp *.ppd "$srcdir/usr/share/cups/model/"
+
+ # set the basedir to an absolute path in the perl-lpdwrapper-script
+ # the relative path,generated on the basis of the caller, does not work in this case
+ cd "$srcdir"
+ # get absolute printer path
+ _baseDir="\"/$(find opt -maxdepth 3 -depth -print -quit -type d)\""
+ # replace the dynamic basedir var with the absolute path
+ sed -i "s|\`readlink\ \$0\`|$_baseDir|" $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
+
+ # /etc/printcap is managed by cups
+ rm "$(find $srcdir -type f -name 'setupPrintcap*')"
+ }
+
+ package() {
+ cp -R "$srcdir/usr" "$pkgdir"
+ cp -R "$srcdir/opt" "$pkgdir"
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And there is where my terminal is and has not moved for well over 45 minutes.