On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: > 170504 Philip Webb wrote: > > 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. > > I've tried 3 methods without success : > (1) install Iscan via Portage & copy the other files in the .deb ; > (2) copy all the files in the .deb (apart from dox) (list checked) ; > (3) try to run the install.sh script. > > None of them succeeds in getting the scanner recognised. > > There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : > I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600 > & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin. > > Any suggestions are very welcome.
If you are going to change it, isn't there a HP device out there that Just Works™ with the hplip and potentially the hplip-plugin packages? -- Regards, Mick
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