I found that rpm files exist for Turbo/RedHat/Fedora and for SuSE/Mandrake. I
read a Japanese bbs that mentioned that the Turbo/RedHat/Fedora one is what
should be used to make the .deb file. However, Alien is unable to create a .deb
file. Possibly because the rpms are for i386 and I am using ubuntu amd 64-bit.
The site where I downloaded the files is at:
http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux/mfp/DL1.do
(It is a form, where the printer (LP-M5500) and environment (optional
drop-downs) are used to go to the printer download page.)
The site is in Japanese. I have attached the files on the download page. The
readme files are all in Japanese but I named the files with English
translations of what each file is.
Can you use these rpms as a means to create the needed files to support
this in Ubuntu (cups, etc.)? I would be greatly appreciated. (By the
way, there are .deb files for the iscan which I believe is for using the
scanner features of the M5500 machine.)
The output from running Alien was as follows:
# alien -d --scripts
Epson-LPM5500-filter-1.1-0.i386-CUPS-CorePackage-Turbo,RedHat,Fedora.rpm
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installdirs
dh_installdirs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installdocs
dh_installdocs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installchangelogs
dh_installchangelogs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/epson-lpm5500-filter
dh_compress
dh_compress: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_makeshlibs
dh_makeshlibs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installdeb
dh_installdeb: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_shlibdeps
dh_shlibdeps: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: couldn't find library libstdc++.so.5 needed by
debian/epson-lpm5500-filter/usr/bin/lpm5500 (ELF format: 'elf32-i386'; RPATH:
'').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any
shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/epson-lpm5500-filter.substvars
debian/epson-lpm5500-filter/usr/bin/lpm5500 returned exit code 2
make: [binary-arch] Error 9 (Ignored)
dh_gencontrol
dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in
package's architecture list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog
-Tdebian/epson-lpm5500-filter.substvars -Pdebian/epson-lpm5500-filter returned
exit code 255
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 9
find: `Epson-LPM5500-filter-1.1': No such file or directory
After I ran the above command, the following directory was created:
Epson-LPM5500-filter-1.1
There are 3 subdirectories in that directory:
ls Epson-LPM5500-filter-1.1
debian etc usr
** Attachment added: "Downloaded rpm files"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/602976/+attachment/1725324/+files/EpsonM5500.tar.gz
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Driver for Epson LP-5500 series missing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602976
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