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I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo, |
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having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint. |
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I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives, |
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& listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Epson driver pkg. |
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They cb viewed at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ |
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with names beginning with 'v550'. |
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It appears that the pkg installs a utility 'iscan', |
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a Sane plugin called 'epkowa', which is not available via Sane-backends |
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( /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap doesn't list it), |
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plus some further data files + a lot of dox. |
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There's a Gentoo pkg 'deb2targz', |
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which I could use to create an archive I could then install on Gentoo. |
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I might then need to fine-tune permissions etc to get the scanner to work, |
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which I could try to do by examining the installation on Mint. |
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Does anyone have any comments, advice, warnings etc ? |
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Thanks for the advice offered so far. |
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