Get status failed message. Reproducible: Always
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
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