Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : partial success

2017-05-04 Thread J. Roeleveld 
On May 4, 2017 3:21:08 PM GMT+02:00, Philip Webb  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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : partial success

2017-05-04 Thread Philip Webb 
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 ?

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[gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : partial success

2017-05-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman 
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 --extract and investigate or show us
the contents.

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