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pstrag

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Registered: 2012-09-25

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] How install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN

Hi all,
anybody can help me with install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN printer?

I found driver here: http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02 … 5177a69b8e but they are only in .rpm and .deb, not in .ppd file

Last edited by pstrag (2012-09-26 10:55:23)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: [SOLVED] How install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN

Hi, and welcome to the forum. Have you heard about AUR ? See the FAQ section.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php? … _Search=Go
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … g_packages

I'm pretty sure that the rest of them use either .deb or .rpm source files. Study how they work and try to adapt them to yours.

Alternatively, use VirtualBox in a 1 GB .vdi "container" (virtual HDD), with say, 256 MB RAM allocated, and MicroXP (a very lightweight Windows XP version) to install the drivers. If they take up too much space, try using NTFS compression from My Computer (right click the drive - "compress entire drive") or use a bigger container, maybe 2 GB.

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pstrag

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Registered: 2012-09-25

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] How install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN

Great thx! Solution with AUR works

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED] How install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN

Post a few more details. Did you adapt one of the PKGBUILD files from the AUR? Then please consider adding it to the AUR.

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … way_Street

And don't forget to mark it as solved (by editing the first post), so that the next person that googles this will find a solution.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-26 08:30:12)

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pstrag

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Registered: 2012-09-25

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Re: [SOLVED] How install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN

Hmm...i use http addres (https didn't work): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go Next downloaded TARBALL from here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42415, unpacked it, copy opt/ folder content to /opt/ and usr/ folder content to /usr/ and cups find driver to my printer and all works.

Misery

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 41

Re: [SOLVED] How install Epson Stylus Office BX310FN

You really should use makepkg to build package instead of "copy it by yourself". :-)