No driver for Epson all-in-one xp-102 [Solved]

[satuser083]

Am trying to install an Epson xp-102, but there doesn't appear to be a driver available (at least, the system sees the printer correctly, but nothing appears in the list following searching for drivers, when I try to Add a printer ). Can anyone help me out (an equivalent, perhaps). Thanks.

Edit: would the following be likely to work:

rpm -i epson-inkjet-printer-201202w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm ? (found the driver @ epson). Or is it not advisable to install non-repos stuff?

[µT6]

if you found the driver in the epson site and there is none on our repos, then you can install it in konsole by using the rpm -i command you mention

it will work if the package doesn't ask for anything else

you must be located in the same folder the file is, then from that folder open konsole as root and write the command the way you mentioned, remember that it has to be the exact name of the file

once you write it correctly, it is a really simple process 

[satuser083]

it will work if the package doesn't ask for anything else

And there lies the problem  . Am now in the middle of a case of dependency-hell; no idea how to get out of this.

Many thanks for your help, though 

[kjpetrie]

Try using apt-get update && apt-get install epson-inkjet-printer-201202w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm to install it. If the dependencies are in the repo (and recognisable) they'll be pulled in. If not, you'll get an error. Just ensure it doesn't want to remove packages you need (either programs you use or ones that pull out half the system).

It is an outside rpm, so it might break something and results aren't guaranteed now or in the future. Your install will become non-standard and therefore unsupported, but if it's the only thing you can try you're rather stuck with that.

Let's hope it works

[satuser083]

Try using apt-get update && apt-get install epson-inkjet-printer-201202w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm to install it. If the dependencies are in the repo (and recognisable) they'll be pulled in. If not, you'll get an error. Just ensure it doesn't want to remove packages you need (either programs you use or ones that pull out half the system).

It is an outside rpm, so it might break something and results aren't guaranteed now or in the future. Your install will become non-standard and therefore unsupported, but if it's the only thing you can try you're rather stuck with that.

Let's hope it works

Yup, it has   . Many, many thanks.  Only one thing foxed me initially (which i should have thought of, of course) was that this has to be done as root. Apart from that, it was all done and dusted within literally two minutes.

Once again, many thanks  .

Edit: for other possible users, the site for the driver is:
http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule