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:
  1. apt-get install foomatic-bin foomatic-filters cupsys alien dpkg-dev
  2. apt-get source gs-afpl (valid for gs-afpl-8.14, 8.15 should Just Work(TM) )
  3. cd gs-afpl-8.14/src
  4. wget -o `mktemp` -O - http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/epsonepl/ghostscript-8.00-ijs-ht.patch | patch
  5. cd ..; dpkg-make
  6. cd ..; dpkg -i gs-afpl_8.14-3_i386.deb
  7. dpkg-reconfigure foomatic-filters, choose gs_afpl
  8. wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/epsonepl/epsoneplijs-0.4.0-1.fc2.i386.rpm
  9. alien epsoneplijs-0.4.0-1.fc2.i386.rpm
  10. dpkg -i epsoneplijs_0.4.0-2_i386.deb
  11. if you want, you can save epsoneplijs_0.4.0-2_i386.deb and gs-afpl_8.14-3_i386.deb for later use

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