Epson xp-205

English Hardware
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I’ve tried to install my epson xp-205 printer with scanner on my opensuse 13.2 x64 through yast, but it gives me an error saying that there is a conflict between my system architecture and the driver (x64_x86). So I went to epson’s website to download the driver (just like I did with ubuntu, and installed with gdebi perfectly) just to get some neat errors. The first one was with Apper which after trying to install the .rpm file says “aborted by user” (Opensuse has been doing this for a while now, specially with programs from google - chrome, play music.rpm, etc). So I try to install through konsole, only to find another error I can’t solve (While with google products, I can add the repo and the key manually, I have no idea what to do in this case for my printer):

Konsole output

~/Transferências> sudo zypper install epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.1-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm
A obter dados do repositório…
A ler pacotes instalados…
A resolver dependências dos pacotes…

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr

1 novo pacote para instalar.
Overall download size: 2,5 MiB. Already cached: 0 B Depois da operação, 3,0 MiB adicionais serão utilizados.
Continuar? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
A obter pacote epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.1-1lsb3.2.x86_64 (1/1), 2,5 MiB ( 3,0 MiB descompactado)
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.1-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm:
Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 8aa65d56: NOKEY
V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 8aa65d56: NOKEY

epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.1-1lsb3.2.x86_64(Cache de ficheiros RPM simples): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available]

I would gladly thank any help here, so I can put my printer to work - and it would be nice as well, if someone could explain why apper used to work flawlessly and now gives errors with any package outside the default repos… :frowning:

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I can not give any advice with respect to Apper (do not have it even installed), but you could try YaST > Software.

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Doesn’t work. still get the same error, saying that the packages conflict with the architecture. It’s a bit weird since I don’t get this at all on ubuntu x64. The only difference is the .deb or .rpm package, all the rest is the same, both are packages for 64 bit systems

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You sure you installed 64 bit OS??

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Yes, please show

uname -a
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Opensuse 13.2 x64 bits. I have 4gb of ram, and never installed a x32 bit OS on this machine. Always 64.

Anyways, the package I’ve downloaded and tried to install is this one epson-inkjet-printer-201202w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm from Epson’s website:

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=17709&DSCCHK=771399a841044832c6e9336ce5c1eec709dfcd07

The .deb amd64 package works perfectly on ubuntu 14.04 x64bits, but the 64bit version of the rpg package gives me the error above. This is kinda of a nuisance, since Opensuse is by far my favorite distro and I only have ubuntu to work with my scanner / printer.

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I have printer Epson L300 working without a problem on openSUSE 13.2 64bit.
I have installed rpm package epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm from Epson web page.

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By using yast I get this https://goo.gl/photos/7k25pgbXaH5417b97

by using apper I get an error all the same, saying almost the same thing.

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Can you try downloading and installing ‘epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm’ from the Epson site?

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX

FWIW, I get a similar warning when installing, but chose to ignore the warning and the package then successfully installs.

I share here for your reference

# zypper in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 9 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  epson-inkjet-printer-escpr glibc-i18ndata kdelibs3-default-style libjpeg62 libpng12-0 lsb m4 patch qt3                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                
The following recommended package was automatically selected:                                                                                                                                   
  kdelibs3-default-style                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                
9 new packages to install.                                                                                                                                                                      
Overall download size: 9.0 MiB. Already cached: 0 B  After the operation, additional 24.9 MiB will be used.                                                                                     
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y                                               
Retrieving package libpng12-0-1.2.51-3.1.2.x86_64                                                                                                          (1/9),  75.4 KiB (171.0 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: libpng12-0-1.2.51-3.1.2.x86_64.rpm ...........................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package m4-1.4.17-2.1.2.x86_64                                                                                                                  (2/9), 236.9 KiB (503.7 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: m4-1.4.17-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm .....................................................................................................................................[done (124.0 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package qt3-3.3.8c-135.1.3.x86_64                                                                                                               (3/9),   2.7 MiB (  9.6 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: qt3-3.3.8c-135.1.3.x86_64.rpm ..................................................................................................................................[done (305.7 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kdelibs3-default-style-3.5.10-83.1.10.x86_64                                                                                            (4/9), 124.6 KiB (355.3 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kdelibs3-default-style-3.5.10-83.1.10.x86_64.rpm .............................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package glibc-i18ndata-2.19-16.15.1.noarch                                                                                                      (5/9),   3.1 MiB ( 10.8 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: glibc-i18ndata-2.19-16.15.1.noarch.rpm .........................................................................................................................[done (353.4 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package libjpeg62-62.1.0-30.5.1.x86_64                                                                                                          (6/9), 102.1 KiB (270.0 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: libjpeg62-62.1.0-30.5.1.x86_64.rpm ...........................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package patch-2.7.5-7.7.1.x86_64                                                                                                                (7/9),  94.4 KiB (181.1 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: patch-2.7.5-7.7.1.x86_64.rpm .................................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package lsb-4.0-26.1.2.x86_64                                                                                                                   (8/9),   8.5 KiB (  110   B unpacked)
Retrieving: lsb-4.0-26.1.2.x86_64.rpm ....................................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2.x86_64                                                                                         (9/9),   2.5 MiB (  3.0 MiB unpacked)
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm:
    Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 8aa65d56: NOKEY
    V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 8aa65d56: NOKEY

epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2.x86_64(Plain RPM files cache): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available]
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i
Checking for file conflicts: .............................................................................................................................................................[done]
(1/9) Installing: libpng12-0-1.2.51-3.1.2 ................................................................................................................................................[done]
(2/9) Installing: m4-1.4.17-2.1.2 ........................................................................................................................................................[done]
(3/9) Installing: qt3-3.3.8c-135.1.3 .....................................................................................................................................................[done]
(4/9) Installing: kdelibs3-default-style-3.5.10-83.1.10 ..................................................................................................................................[done]
(5/9) Installing: glibc-i18ndata-2.19-16.15.1 ............................................................................................................................................[done]
(6/9) Installing: libjpeg62-62.1.0-30.5.1 ................................................................................................................................................[done]
(7/9) Installing: patch-2.7.5-7.7.1 ......................................................................................................................................................[done]
(8/9) Installing: lsb-4.0-26.1.2 .........................................................................................................................................................[done]
(9/9) Installing: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2 ...............................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
warning: /var/cache/zypp/packages/_tmpRPMcache_/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.5.2-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 8aa65d56: NOKEY
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I did a clean install of opensuse, got dolphin open and opened the konsole to install every package from the epson website. It all went well, except for one that I had to choose to break the dependencies. But at least, my epson printer is working and so is the scanner. It solved everything - but the issue with apper still remains, any package outisde the repos stops the install saying it was aborted by user (dropbox from opensuse one click install works perfectly, but the rpm package from dropbox doesn’t. The same goes for google Chrome, google music manager etc).

Anyways, thanks for the replies guys, cheers!

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Glad to hear that you’re up and running with the printer. (Can’t help with Apper as I don’t use it at all.)

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For Apper help show us you repos

zypper lr -d