Suggestion from openprinting forums... Firstly, install the package with dpkg -i , then change the dependency on lsb to lsb-base by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status and finding the epson package in that file. Then change the Depends: line to lsb-base so it looks like
Depends: lsb-base Then run apt-get install -f to configure the dirver properly. The second thing is, because this isn't a real LSB system (or, seems so to me) then you have to have a LSB compatible loader in /lib64 so we need to symlink the standard link loader instead. As root, you would ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 This satisfies the loader for the printfilter. After these steps, my networked XP-312 worked. I suspect this to be the case for many of the LSB based Epson drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 (maybe earlier versions of Ubuntu as well, actually). -- 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
