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Dear Debianists,

I have been looking on linuxprinting.org for help finding a driver for my
Epson D88 that doesn't like being configured at the moment.

The site says that the driver for the D88 lives in the Gutenprint package.
Going on the sourceforge site to dow load it has given me a tarball.....

I couldn't find a package for apt in synaptic in Debian Sarge 3.1 r4 that I
use but I thought that I might ask in case there is one somewhere that I
don't knwo about..

Here are the instructions from sourceforge:

All Other Users

Users of other operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
HP-UX, etc. should download the main package, named
"gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2". This is a "source tarball"; it contains the
source code for the package and must be compiled to produce binary
executables. The command to unpack this file is

tar xjvf gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2

On some systems, you may have to issue the following command:

bunzip2 -c gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

This will create a subdirectory named gutenprint-5.0.0. You should read the
files named README and NEWS in that subdirectory for further instructions.

I hope that footmatic will be able to see the driver when it is installed
by the above recipe if I end up having to use it.

Comments appreciated.

Regards

Michael Fothergill

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installing gutenprint on Debian

Submitted by Andrew Sackvill... on Tue, 2006-12-12 14:27.

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:00:47PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
>
> I have been looking on linuxprinting.org for help finding a driver for
> my Epson D88 that doesn't like being configured at the moment.
>
> The site says that the driver for the D88 lives in the Gutenprint
> package. Going on the sourceforge site to dow load it has given me a
> tarball.....
>
> I couldn't find a package for apt in synaptic in Debian Sarge 3.1 r4
> that I use but I thought that I might ask in case there is one somewhere
> that I don't knwo about..

apt-cache search guten yields a bunch of stuff including
cupsys-driver-gutenprint

Description: printer drivers for CUPS
This package includes a CUPS driver based on Gutenprint.
.
The CUPS drivers contain all of the files needed to support
photo-quality printing on any printer supported by Gutenprint. You
can find out more about the Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS"), an
IPP-based printing system for UNIX/Linux, at:
.
http://www.cups.org
.
This is Gutenprint version 5.0.0, a stable release
in the 5.0 series.
.
Gutenprint is the print facility for the GIMP, and in addition a
suite of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems
using GhostScript or CUPS. These drivers provide printing quality
for UNIX/Linux on a par with proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in
many cases, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing
tasks. Gutenprint was formerly known as Gimp-Print.

that may be what you're looking for.

A

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installing gutenprint on Debian

Submitted by s. keeling on Tue, 2006-12-12 18:00.

Michael Fothergill :
>
> I have been looking on linuxprinting.org for help finding a driver for my
> Epson D88 that doesn't like being configured at the moment.
>
> The site says that the driver for the D88 lives in the Gutenprint package.
> Going on the sourceforge site to dow load it has given me a tarball.....
>
> I couldn't find a package for apt in synaptic in Debian Sarge 3.1 r4 that I

The package has changed its name to gutenprint. In Sarge, it's still
gimpprint:

(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude search gimpprint
i cupsys-driver-gimpprint - Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
i A cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data - Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
p gimpprint-doc - Users' Guide for Gimp-Print and CUPS
p gimpprint-locales - Locale data files for Gimp-Print
i A ijsgimpprint - Inkjet Server - Ghostscript driver for Gimp-Pr
v libgimpprint-dev -
v libgimpprint-doc -
i A libgimpprint1 - The Gimp-Print printer driver library
p libgimpprint1-dev - Development files for the Gimp-Print library
p libgimpprint1-doc - Documentation for the Gimp-Print printer drive

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