Work-around for everyone, I believe. I uninstalled my suggestion of message #16 and followed this myself.
1. Append the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list (E.g. sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list): deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main 2. sudo apt update; sudo apt install lsb 3. Go to http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX 4. Enter your product name and "Linux" as the O/S. Click on the search sysmbol. Accept conditions and download the latest "printer driver" DEB file for your CPU architecture. Mine (XP-410) was the Epson Printer Utility for AMD64, dated 2016-04-12. 5. Install the downloaded DEB file (E.g. using gdebi). My gdebi installation log looked like this: Epson Printer Utility Driver for Linux This is a Printer Utility program for Epson Printer Driver. Using this software, you can check ink levels, view error and other status... on EPSON Printers. For detail list of supported printer, please refer to below site: http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX . (Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.79ubuntu0.1.) Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y Selecting previously unselected package epson-printer-utility. (Reading database ... 220307 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack epson-printer-utility_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking epson-printer-utility (1.0.0-1lsb3.2) ... Setting up epson-printer-utility (1.0.0-1lsb3.2) ... Install Message > Described entry of LITE in services. Install Message > Backup file is /etc/services.bak. Install Message > Start /usr/lib/epson-backend/setup to change setup. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ... 6. Using the "Add Printer" function from the "All Settings" application, add your printer. In my case, I found it on the Wifi network and the driver installation worked automatically. =============================================================================== I hope that this helps the remaining folks with hardware and software installation issues due to the absence of the lsb packages. It was easy to add the lsb packages to my 16.04 installation and I had no issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lsb in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536353 Title: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lsb package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/1536353/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp