On Sun 09 Feb 2020 at 10:20:54 -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2020-02-09, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Against doing this is the fact that Epson does not provide a package > > for the L220 that employs the epkowa backend. That is because epkowa > > is not meant for that device. Maybe the OP has found this out by now. > > Did you tell the OP that? I missed it. Oh, I see you asked what file the > OP downloaded and that question was left hanging without a response. > > Epson only seems to provide a single generic package for their > scanners/multifunction printers.
There is also an iscan-bundle, which has libsane-epkowa. > http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php The imagescan bundle uses libsane-imagescan. > http://download.ebz.epson.net/man/linux/imagescanv3_e.html#sec6-1 > > I was thrown off by the OP's error message: > > Failed to open device 'epkowa:usb:002:003': The imagescan bundle is what is offered by Epson for the L220 at http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX Permissions on the USB bus wouldn't have been top of my list to look at. > Maybe that's related to the (perhaps unwise) entry the OP added to > /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf. It's true the installation manual linked above > makes no mention of it. > > > (Incidentally, the bug that the Ubuntu advice is targeting is one > > that was never present in Debian stable, testing or unstable). > > That too, I guess. Ubuntu took the SANE packages from experimental to put into 18.04 LTS. You reap what you sow. -- Brian.
