Printer Help

[electroman6913]

I bought an Epson workforce 520 printer and I need to install the drivers to make it work on Maverick Meerkat. Could someone tell me where to get the drivers and how to install them.

[ptkobe]

Try google "+ubuntu Epson workforce 520 drivers"

If that don't do it, try google "+linux Epson workforce 520 drivers"

check openprinting

prefer .deb, install with dpkg -i

Wish you luck
Luis

[electroman6913]

I pound a driver for it but it says it can't install lsb

and the package manager says fix broken packages first.

[ptkobe]

I can

go to a terminal and type:
$ sudo apt-get insall lsb

and tell us what is the messages

EDIT: Sorry,
$ sudo apt-get install lsb

[electroman6913]

chad@chad-desktop:~$ $ sudo apt-get insall lsb
$: command not found
chad@chad-desktop:~$

[electroman6913]

chad@chad-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get insall lsb
[sudo] password for chad:
E: Invalid operation insall
chad@chad-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install lsb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
lsb : Depends: lsb-desktop but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
chad@chad-desktop:~$

[ptkobe]

You need to install lsb in order to install that printer driver (which seems the correct one, hope it works).

lsb won't install because of some problem with lsb-desktop. Probably some Maverick not ready yet question, don't know.

Output of
$ sudo apt-get install lsb-desktop
may, or not, give you some clue.

You may want to try run aptitude
$ sudo aptitude

You should have a red bar on bottom, press e key to examine and seek for solutions.

Also just the g key and go/install may fix it.

Regards
Luis

PS: lsb (Linux Standard Base (LSB) | The Linux Foundation) aims to replace the old different init-scripts packages per distribution, afaik.

[electroman6913]

chad@chad-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install lsb-desktop
[sudo] password for chad:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
lsb-desktop : Depends: libqt4-gui (>= 4.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
chad@chad-desktop:~$

[tinytux]

You can check my article on how to set up a printer with CUPS.

[ptkobe]

Hi, electroman6913

I don't know what Ubuntu release are you using, but you are missing libqt4-gui (>= 4.3).

I am using 10.10 (I think) x86_64

$ uname -a
Linux desktop.xxx 2.6.35-22-server #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 22:02:33 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$$ lsb_release
LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch

I guess you are using some beta release or your system is not updated. You may need to wait until the dependencies you need are made available, so keep your system up to date running
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

when the qt4 lib is available you would be able to run
$ sudo apt-get install lsb
and then install your driver

Regards
Luis