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cups-filters package

  1. Bug #1536353
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 1536353

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Arup (arup-chowdhury) wrote : Re: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore

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).