Newer Epson printers (SOLVED)

[bicol_willem]

In my surrounding Epson is a favorite printer for many. Lately a few has bought newer types and I struggle with installing these in PCLinuxOS as these seems not (yet) supported. Found (with some help) the correct drivers on a Epson site and tried to install these. No problems with the printer driver but the scanner driver install returns a error:

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Failed dependencies:
        iscan-data is needed by iscan-2.29.1-5.usb0.1.ltdl3.i386

Anyone can get me on the trail of this?

Is this "iscan-data" a package that should be requested?

The printer in question here is Epson L210

[kjpetrie]

Looks as if you're trying to install the driver from an rpm. Is that right? If so, I take it you know the usual warnings about installing alien rpms in pclos. Maybe you should request the driver is packaged for pclos...?

Looking at other distro forums where this issue has arisen, it looks as if Epsom supply the driver as two packages, iscan and iscan-data, which has to be installed first.

But remember this is not recommended and you will lose all support if things don't work out as you hope.

[bicol_willem]

Looks as if you're trying to install the driver from an rpm. Is that right? If so, I take it you know the usual warnings about installing alien rpms in pclos. Maybe you should request the driver is packaged for pclos...?

Looking at other distro forums where this issue has arisen, it looks as if Epsom supply the driver as two packages, iscan and iscan-data, which has to be installed first.

But remember this is not recommended and you will lose all support if things don't work out as you hope.

I am aware of installing (or better not) outside the repo´s but I have never had any problem with installing lacking (canon) drivers. Epson has for this printer available indeed 2 packages, one for the printer and iscan (rpm) but not a rpm for iscan-data as far as I can dig in the web. Yet iscan-data is needed and is available. Installing that the traditional way (./configure - make etc.) makes me think more about the rule not to install outside the repo´s...... Trying so returns a error anyway: configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

It comes with instruction to create a rpm but hey ..... here is not a packager. And so ... the scanners don´t work while they should.
Think I try a package request...

EDIT:  OK.... got it done.
A confusing bunch of driver files and numbers but the combination iscan-data-1.20.0-1.noarch and iscan-2.29.1-5.usb0.1.ltdl7.i386 workszzzz....