Thanks Craig, I had an idea, in rpm land if I tried to install a package which was already installed, it would reply "nothing o do - already installed" So I thought I would try sudo apt-get istall lsb ..... and it installed. No sooner was that done than the printer module in the settings showed that the Epson XP-6000 had been installed. Thanks for those commands I will start a sys-admins notebook. Cheers Andrew On 22/05/18 00:33, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:37:44PM +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
I was a very happy RPMer but now I am on the other side
before, I could enter #rpm -q lsb apt-cache search -n lsb
That will list all packages with 'lsb' in the package name, along with a brief one-line description.
e.g. on my debian box:
$ apt-cache search -n lsb liblist-utilsby-perl - higher-order list utility functions lsb-base - Linux Standard Base init script functionality lsb-release - Linux Standard Base version reporting utility
If you want to list packages containing 'lsb' in either the package name OR anywhere in the description, drop the '-n':
apt-cache search lsb
you can view full details on a package with, e.g., 'apt-cache show lsb-base'
I run these so often I've made aliases for them:
alias acss='apt-cache search' alias acs='apt-cache show'
I need to install some drivers for an Epson XP 6000 and it depends on Linux Standard Base 3.2 It's always a bad idea to install proprietary drivers from manufacturers.
IMO, that should only be done if there aren't any open source drivers and you've already bought the hardware - if you haven't bought it yet, look for an alternative with open source drivers.
anyway:
http://www.openprinting.org/driver/epson-escpr
That lists support for several other Epson XP models, but doesn't explicitly mention "XP 6000" and the Stylus CX6000. Dunno if it supports an XP 6000. Worth checking out, anyway.
There are .deb packages for both 32-bit and 64-bit available there for download.
craig
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