On 11/06/18 17:14, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote:
Hello Andrew,
On 6/11/18, Andrew Greig via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Hi All,
I have had a pretty crappy run with print drivers on my Ubuntu 18.04 desktop, including one that I got from Epson in England.
But today, after accepting the offer to upgrade, my machine jumped from 16.04 to 17.10. But before I could enjoy it it offered the upgrade to 18.04, same as my desktop.
But the Printer driver I had installed in 16.04 is now running extremely well in 18.04, same printer, no surprise.
So now, I want to remove all traces of the other epson drivers I had installed from deb files. How do I find them, how do I delete them? I will use exactly the same driver as is running so well in my laptop.
Can someone point me in the right direction, in RPM land I was fine. But there is better maintenance of GIMP and Darktable in this side of the force. Depends on whether you are happy with the command line, or graphical interface. Command line is the "apt" toolset, try "man apt-get" for a start. I am not up to speed with all of them, but they are exceedingly powerful. On the graphical side, look for "Synaptic". The advantage of the command line is that you can query for dependencies, less apparent in the graphical interface, it just handles it in the background, choose to install a package, and it will point out the unmet dependencies and ask if you are prepared to mark them for installation also.
This is why I went for Debian and derivatives, getting away from dependency hell. RPM based distributions have improved that, but the Apt toolset are still class leaders.
I too have some printer issues, I need to better understand CUPS and how it all ties together. I also went looking for a CAPT printer driver from Canon, but so far only the 32 bit version when I want for 64 bit Debian. I would prefer open source, but do not know of any support yet.
I will be better with the Brother colour lasers, especially the one I more want to use, it supports BrotherScript, a variant on Postscript.
Gratefully
Andrew Greig Regards,
Mark Trickett _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main Hi Mark, thanks for the reply, incidentally the Ricoh Color Laser we had some years ago had a Brother knock of as well. Identical machine but to preserve Ricoh's price gouging the toner cartridges from Brother had a tab in a different place. Remove the Tab and the cartridge fitted. Ricoh were $220 and brother were $120, expensive tab.
Most color lasers need no more than downloading the PPD file and pointing to it when installing the printer in CUPS. I found sudo apt-get purge packagename. I know what I installed so here goes. Andrew Greig