Has anybody had success installing the Epson ESCPR2 Linux printer drivers with Fedora Silverblue? The Epson driver has a dependency for the LSB package (REDHAT-LSB) which when I installed it as an rpm-ostree layer, caused significant havoc and damage to my desktop.
It’s possible that a proprietary package like TurboPrint.info may be my only solution - but again I am unsure if I can install that on Silverblue.
Any insights on either approach would also be appreciated. cheers, Joe.
Hi, first I don’t have epson printer but I would happily to try to install the driver to testing. But when I go to link you provided, I always end up wit ESCPR (is it version 1?) instead of ESCPR2.
Would you like specify the printer model so I can download ESCPR2?
Hi @oprizal - the printer I am installing is the Epson ET-8500. I cannot recommend installing it onto a Silverblue 35 desktop. The driver installs as a dependency - the LSB (RedHAT-LSB) package. Doing this wiped out my Pipewire sound and messed with Systemd. A rollback didin’t fix the situation and I ended up doing a re-install to fix things.
I did get the proprietary TurboPrint.info package to work and will probably go with that.
Hi, I just tested it both on Fedora Workstation (laptop) and Fedora Silverblue (vm), all works.
[testcase@fedora ~]$ rpm-ostree db diff
ostree diff commit from: rollback deployment (34b3a6ad08a934f5db9031929a1f64a788033d151e9074596c6a53af2edf68ac)
ostree diff commit to: booted deployment (94d8fd2175d923e10913bc41181ae039a88e313468f65c2d2c1211611339ead7)
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Hi Syaifur - thanks very much for trying this out. I will give it another go - this time in a VM - and see if I get the same result. Will post back here with results.
I just know that this driver are available in Fedora repository. May be you can try first use this driver instead from Epson web page.
[testcase@toolbox ~]$ dnf info epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
...
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Wed Feb 2 12:27:04 2022.
Available Packages
Name : epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
Version : 1.1.24
Release : 3.1lsb3.2.fc35
Architecture : noarch
Size : 1.9 M
Source : epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.24-3.1lsb3.2.fc35.src.rpm
Repository : fedora
Summary : Drivers for Epson inkjet printers
URL : http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
License : GPLv2+
Description : This package contains PPD files for newer Epson Inkjet printers which
: are not available in the fully open source epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
: driver.
:
: The escpr2 driver relies on a binary blob in the source package, which
: has been removed in Fedora. The PPD files have been patched to use the
: open source escpr driver, instead.
:
: Although many of the PPD files work with the older, fully open source
: driver (e.g. ET-3700 seems to work), it is quite likely that some
: don't. This is not a bug in the Fedora package, but a limitation of
: the partly closed-source upstream drivers.
Hi Syaifur, I just tried both the install methods you mentioned: the Epson supplied package and the re-bundled RPM Fedora supplies. Both installed into a fresh VM and neither the issues I saw previously occur. Absolutely no idea what went wrong before 
. So it looks like I have several install methods to try when I my hands on the actual printer. Very cool!! Thank you so much for your help with this.
for the record:
1] Using the Eposon supplied binary. Inside a vm this worked well and I can confirm what you saw - there were no effects on the system.
rpm-ostree install epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.46-1lsb3.2.x86_64
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/35/x86_64/silverblue
Version: 35.20220201.0 (2022-02-01T00:47:44Z)
BaseCommit: b9cb7a4311962b34573eb5fea91538647f908a53f63df47ad8e8a3de6c4130cf
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 787EA6AE1147EEE56C40B30CDB4639719867C58F
LocalPackages: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.46-1lsb3.2.x86_64
2] Using the Fedora package, which until you mentioned it was completely unaware of.
rpm-ostree install epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
Staging deployment… done
Added:
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1:1.7.10-2.1lsb3.2.fc35.x86_64
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.24-3.1lsb3.2.fc35.noarch
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/35/x86_64/silverblue
Version: 35.20220201.0 (2022-02-01T00:47:44Z)
BaseCommit: b9cb7a4311962b34573eb5fea91538647f908a53f63df47ad8e8a3de6c4130cf
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 787EA6AE1147EEE56C40B30CDB4639719867C58F
LayeredPackages: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2