Bug 363383

Summary: Unable to install printer driver on latest version of Kubunu 16.04
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] print-manager Reporter: Awan <nasimawan>
Component: generalAssignee: Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Awan 2016-05-21 22:24:07 UTC
Get status failed message.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Awan 2016-05-21 22:34:58 UTC
Installed latest version of Kubuntu 16.04 (after upgrade from 15.10 failed half-way through and I could not log back in).

Have 64-bit Siemens Celsius PC  Epson WF-2660 printer.

Tried all the suggestions and websites here:

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/DriverPackages

sudo alien -ck <name of the downloaded RPM package>

sudo alien -ck epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.6.5-1lsb3.2.src.rpm

sudo alien -ck epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.6.5-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.6.5-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm

sudo dpkg -i <name of the .deb package>

sudo dpkg -i epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.6.5-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.6.5-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i  epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.6.5-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb


sudo dpkg -i  epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.6.5-1lsb3.2_i386.deb

sudo apt-get install lsb

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/DriverPackages

deb http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/ lsb3.2 main
to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and run 

sudo apt-get update

How to edit /etc/apt/sources.list

http://askubuntu.com/questions/332669/unable-to-edit-etc-apt-sources-list-file

Use the terminal text editor program nano instead of gedit to edit /etc/apt/sources.list. Open the terminal and type:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2016-05-23 15:04:12 UTC
Please ask for help in a forum of your distribution.