![]() ![]() ![]() The Image Scan scanning software and its network scanning plugin, will require configuration in order for network scanning to work. This time, instead of building the package and installing with two separate commands, I executed - from the directory containing the cloned directory - makepkg with the appropriate options to build and install in one step: qt4-4.8.7-31-x86_64.Īfter installing the Qt package separately, I used a different process to build and install epson-printer-utility, this time cloning the package using the git URL provided on the packages AUR page and using the makepkg tool to build and install the package, instead of using yay. I executed the appropriate pacman command from the directory containing the directory containing the locally built package: Yay -builddir=/home/brook/DataEXT4/AURbuild qt4īecause the sudo prompt to install the package timed out I had to install the resulting package separately. So, I instead created a directory on a data partition for yay builds, and executed: The real problem was that the yay cache directory was too small in my home folder for yay to successfully build the required Qt dependency - also from the AUR - and install it automatically as part of the installation of epson-printer-utility, which in turn caused the installation of epson-printer-utility to fail. This was the extent of the problems caused by the state of the available package on the AUR. First, during the Arch install, the package was flagged as outdated, but it had the same version number as in the Epson search results, so I proceeded to install it with yay anyway, after editing the PKGBUILD as suggested in the comments of the package's AUR page. But when I installed it on Arch in March of 2020, installing Epson Printer Utility was a little problematic because of how I configured my Arch system and to a very limited extent, state of the packages in the AUR at that time. This simple command was all it took to install the program on Garuda this month (July 2021), and I imagine it would be on Arch. The printer management and maintenance utility can be installed with: This is discussed below in the section Network Scanning Configuration. One other noteworthy item with respect to the scanning software is that network scanning requires modifying the configuration file to specify the address of the printer. It should be noted that there are similarly named packages, iscan and iscan-plugin-network in the regular repositories and the AUR, respectively, but the versions of these programs do not match the results from the search on the Epson support site. So, the Arch experience allowed the Epson printer drivers, the Epson printer management utility, and the network scanning capability, whereas openSUSE only allowed the first of these. At the time I installed on Arch, the required Qt 4 libraries were not available, so the printer utility could not be installed. However, the openSUSE software portal, currently offers only the printer driver from Epson, and not the printer management utility, nor the software required for network scanning, and like the AUR does not offer the Epson PC-Fax software. OpenSUSE, like Arch offers a supplementary software sources through its software portal with Epson software. The more recent installation on Garuda, required no manual intervention the complete driver and utility installation with yay, and setup of the printer using the Plasma Settings printer configuration tool took two minutes. At the time I installed on Arch there were complications related to the PKGBUILD of the Qt 4 libraries available on the AUR, which are required by the Epson printer utility software, requiring me to manually edit the PKGBUILD. I installed the available software from the AUR, on Arch over fifteen months ago, and now on Garuda Linux. The only software package missing from the AUR is the PC-Fax driver and utility, which if desired can be downloaded from the Epson support site. The packages available for the Epson Workforce Pro WF-4740 from the AUR enable nearly full functionality of the multi-function printer on Arch and derivatives, namely the full printer features, including all of the available print job settings, scanning, including network scanning, and maintenance of the multi function through management utility software. One of the strengths of Arch is the availability of high quality packages for important software, including printer drivers and utilities. ![]()
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