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170503 Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2017-05-03 15:13, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob |
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>> & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item |
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>> (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen). |
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>> So can anyone advise me how to get my new scanner working on Gentoo ? |
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> Unpack the .deb in Mint with 'dpkg', |
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> then extract and investigate or show us the contents. |
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In another thread today, Thelma wrote : |
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> I was installing Brother printer driver on Gentoo via rpm |
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> rpm -ihv --nodeps (lpr-drivername) |
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> rpm -ihv --nodeps (cupswrapper-drivername) |
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There is also a .rpm version of the Epson driver pkg |
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& I see a Gentoo pkg 'rpm', which presumably gives the above commands. |
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Would it perhaps be easiest to install 'rpm' & get the .rpm driver, |
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then install the driver in a similar way to Thelma's printer driver ? |
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