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mikx4

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Registered: 2025-09-13

Posts: 8

Anyone help me with an old Epson rpm PKGBUILD and a local file?

Hi,

Epson no longer provide drivers online for my old printer so I am trying to use the files I have already downloaded for deb and rpm.
I know I can use the ESCPR webpage and its PKGBUILD, but I would like to use the much older printer files, and even learn a bit about PKGBUILD.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/epso … er-201212w

I have the file locally that the PKGBUILD tries to go get, but I have been unable to modify the PKGBUILD script to point to the local file instead of going to https

Can someone please assist?

Thank you.

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,280

Re: Anyone help me with an old Epson rpm PKGBUILD and a local file?

remove the http(s)/yada/yadda part of the sourceurl and just keep the filename.
That will make makepkg look for the file in the directory its started from.

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Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-09-19 10:46:46)

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mikx4

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Registered: 2025-09-13

Posts: 8

Re: Anyone help me with an old Epson rpm PKGBUILD and a local file?

remove the http(s)/yada/yadda part of the sourceurl and just keep the filename.
That will make makepkg look for the file in the directory its started from.

Moderator Note
Moving to Creating & Modifying Packages

Thanks for that. I did just that, but apparently there were some missing deps, which the -s option allowed me to see what it was.
I was then able to git clone and makepkg the missing dependency, install it, and then makepkg my printer package, which I also then installed.

Thanks again.

Last edited by mikx4 (2025-09-19 12:59:14)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Anyone help me with an old Epson rpm PKGBUILD and a local file?

Glad you solved it.

If you're satisfied with the outcome, please prepend [Solved] to the thread title.
(Edit first post, there's a char limit so you may have to shorten the existing title)

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky