As the title says, is it safe for me to install this driver for a Xerox WorkCentre 7835 Printer on my Ubuntu 13.04 installation?
Because when I try to install them it says something about a bad package quality. I really don't want to break my Ubuntu setup.
i'm not sure where I found them on Xerox's site but I usually just download the .ppd file instead of the .deb package. During the install of the printer when it asks for a driver or ppd file, i point it to that.
It looks like the main complaint about the deb is that the files should be owned by root instead of whoever it leaves it as. That might be an easy post-install fix.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/view-and-extract-packages/ will tell you how to get the files out of a deb so you can examine them more closely in a safe directory.
The other errors:
E: XeroxPrtDrv: bad-package-name
E: XeroxPrtDrv: package-not-lowercase
E: XeroxPrtDrv: maintainer-address-missing Xerox
don't sound at all like a real problem.
The only one that does sound like a problem is:
E: XeroxPrtDrv: malformed-deb-archive found 4 members instead of 3
According to http://lintian.debian.org/tags/malformed-deb-archive.html
that is a serious problem. I suspect the deb won't even work. You probably need to contact Xerox and let them know they have a malformed-deb-archive problem with those packages.
