I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo, having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint.
I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives, & listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Epson driver pkg. They cb viewed at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ with names beginning with 'v550'. It appears that the pkg installs a utility 'iscan', a Sane plugin called 'epkowa', which is not available via Sane-backends ( /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap doesn't list it), plus some further data files + a lot of dox. There's a Gentoo pkg 'deb2targz', which I could use to create an archive I could then install on Gentoo. I might then need to fine-tune permissions etc to get the scanner to work, which I could try to do by examining the installation on Mint. Does anyone have any comments, advice, warnings etc ? Thanks for the advice offered so far. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
