(Solved) Epson Perfection V30 and Salix64 KDE 13.37 system.

[globetrotterdk]

I am trying to get my standalone Epson Perfection V30 scanner to work with my desktop box running Salix64 KDE 13.37. The scanner is connected to the box by a USB cable. Some Epson scanners apparently don't need a driver, so I started out by downloading VueScan and seeing if it would work out of the box so to speak. VueScan gives me the following error

VueScan found an Epson Perfection V300, but no Epson software for this scanner was found on your system. Try downloading a driver for this scanner from http://www.avasys.jp/english.

I then took a look at SlackBuilds. The Epson Perfection V30 is unfortunately not mentioned. I also noted that it states at the top:

These are the proprietary binary-only i386-only libraries for EPSON USB scanners.

This, despite there being listed a iscan-proprietary-drivers-2.10.0.1-1.3.x86_64.rpm file at the bottom of the page. I also noticed that for some reason, the .rpm files referred to are from OpenSuSE. The Avasys site has both source files as well as, .rpm and .deb packages for the Epson Perfection V30.

At this point, I am a bit confused. Do I try to modify the SlackBuild script, do I build from the source provided from Avasys, or do I do something completely different?

[Andyun]

See:

• http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2711.
• Salix Wiki (rus).

[globetrotterdk]

Many thanks for the quick reply. In my case, I only needed to do the following:

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# rpm2tgz -d -n esci-interpreter-gt-f720-0.1.1-2.x86_64.rpm

and

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# spkg -i esci-interpreter-gt-f720-0.1.1-x86_64-2.tgz

VueScan does the rest.

EDIT:
I also got the scanner on my Epson Stylus SX425W all in one working by doing the following. I downloaded the iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-2.x86_64.rpm file from Avasys. I then ran:

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# rpm2tgz -d -n iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-2.x86_64.rpm

Afterwards I installed the package:

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# spkg -i iscan-network-nt-1.1.0-x86_64-2.tgz

Now I can use both scanners