Tuesday, February 08, 2005
How to get an Epson EPL-5900L working in Debian
No plug'n'play here. Neither gs-gpl nor gs-esp work. You have to patch and use gs-afpl from non-free. gs-gpl v. 8.15 should work when it is released.
Here's the general routine:
Here's the general routine:
- apt-get install foomatic-bin foomatic-filters cupsys alien dpkg-dev
- apt-get source gs-afpl (valid for gs-afpl-8.14, 8.15 should Just Work(TM) )
- cd gs-afpl-8.14/src
- wget -o `mktemp` -O - http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/epsonepl/ghostscript-8.00-ijs-ht.patch | patch
- cd ..; dpkg-make
- cd ..; dpkg -i gs-afpl_8.14-3_i386.deb
- dpkg-reconfigure foomatic-filters, choose gs_afpl
wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/epsonepl/epsoneplijs-0.4.0-1.fc2.i386.rpm - alien epsoneplijs-0.4.0-1.fc2.i386.rpm
- dpkg -i epsoneplijs_0.4.0-2_i386.deb
- if you want, you can save epsoneplijs_0.4.0-2_i386.deb and gs-afpl_8.14-3_i386.deb for later use