[Bug 99372] Re: Driver for Epson Stylus printers not found in Kubuntu Feisty

[Till Kamppeter]

Can you uninstall the package cupsys-driver-gutenprint via the command

sudo dpkg -r --force-depends cupsys-driver-gutenprint

and then do

sudo apt-get install lsb
wget http://openprinting.org/download/printdriver/RPMS/i486/gutenprint-5.0.0.99.1-2lsb3.1.i486.rpm
sudo alien --scrpts gutenprint-5.0.0.99.1-2lsb3.1.i486.rpm
sudo dpkg -i gutenprint_5.0.0.99.1-3_i386.deb

Then you will have the OpenPrinting version of Gutenprint (distribution-
independent driver package). This one has PPD URLs which end in .ppd.gz:

till at till-laptop:~$ lpinfo -m | grep -i "Epson Stylus DX3850"
gutenprint/Epson/Epson-Stylus_DX3850-gutenprint.5.0-en.ppd.gz Epson Stylus DX3850 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0.99.1
gutenprint/Epson/Epson-Stylus_DX3850-gutenprint.5.0.sim-en.ppd.gz Epson Stylus DX3850 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0.99.1 Simplified
till at till-laptop:~$

Try to start the KDE Printing Manager now and see whether the
PPDs/printer entries appear now. If this is the case there is really a
bug in the KDE Printing Manager. This should be reported upstream to
both KDE (for a fix) and Gutenprint (for a workaround).


** Changed in: gutenprint (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
       Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

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Driver for Epson Stylus printers not found in Kubuntu Feisty
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