After re-installing Xubuntu 16.04 this morning, I was able to find a suitable driver for my Epson XP-410 printer by adding the package, printer-driver-escpr. There was no requirement for lsb as a prerequisite.
dpkg -L printer-driver-escpr /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/printer-driver-escpr /usr/lib/printer-driver-escpr/libescpr.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/cups /usr/lib/cups/driver /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr /usr/lib/cups/filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/epson-escpr /usr/lib/cups/filter/epson-escpr-wrapper /usr/share /usr/share/cups /usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters /usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/printer-driver-escpr.ppd-updater /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/printer-driver-escpr /usr/share/doc/printer-driver-escpr/copyright /usr/share/doc/printer-driver-escpr/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib/printer-driver-escpr/libescpr.so.1 I would recommend that the other affected parties should try this approach with 16.04. Stay away from the Epson site downloads. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536353 Title: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore Status in lsb: Confirmed Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lsb package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Starting with Xenial, lsb compatibility packages were dropped (besides lsb-release and lsb-base): lsb (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low * Drop all the LSB compatibility packages besides lsb-release and lsb-base - Drop packages-availability checking in lsb-release - Truncate README.Debian to a minimum - Document this in lsb-base.NEWS.Debian * Change the versioning number to avoid any ambiguity; use joeyh's version.date, with version being Debian next stable's -- Didier Raboud <o...@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:00 +0200 The problem is that downloadable printer drivers (like the ones from Openprinting, but also from other available providers) that are suggested when installing a printer on Ubuntu depends on lsb, which is not available anymore: epson-inkjet-printer-201106w: Dépend: lsb (>=3.2) but it is not installable This triggers a regression where it is not possible to setup a printer this way (downloading a driver where no local driver is available) anymore. I see two possible solutions: - Add a proper replaces field to one of the remaining lsb-* packages, to hopefully fix missing lsb package (maybe it would be useful to also replace other compability packages that are not built anymore). - Re-introduce LSB compatibility packages, but that might be an overkill. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lsb/+bug/1536353/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
