On May 4, 2017 3:21:08 PM GMT+02:00, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >170503 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> On 2017-05-03 15:13, Philip Webb wrote: >>> It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob >>> & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS >item >>> (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen). >>> So can anyone advise me how to get my new scanner working on Gentoo >? >> Unpack the .deb in Mint with 'dpkg', >> then extract and investigate or show us the contents. > >In another thread today, Thelma wrote : > >> I was installing Brother printer driver on Gentoo via rpm >> rpm -ihv --nodeps (lpr-drivername) >> rpm -ihv --nodeps (cupswrapper-drivername) > >There is also a .rpm version of the Epson driver pkg >& I see a Gentoo pkg 'rpm', which presumably gives the above commands. >Would it perhaps be easiest to install 'rpm' & get the .rpm driver, >then install the driver in a similar way to Thelma's printer driver ?
I wouldn't use 2 different package managers on the same system. Dependencies and updates will not be handled correctly that way. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
