Debian: unable to install lsb package

Question

I have an Epson ET-2600 printer at home. I tried configuring it using CUPS, but the printing is very slow and constantly in a very high quality (which results in a lot of ink being wasted). I tried to download the .deb packages from here, but it requires the lsb package which I cannot retrieve. I currently have Debian 10 installed. I tried to put in my /etc/apt/sources.list the link for Debian Jessie and running sudo apt install lsb, but it did not work.

Any ideas on how I can get a better working open driver or the lsb package to install the official Epson driver?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

LSB or Linux Standard Base support in Debian has been discontinued as of 2015 . They have kept some of the features in the packages lsb-base and lsb-release.

While not especially dangerous, I would recommend that you stick to only using Debian stable repositories and remove the Jessie sources from your /etc/apt/sources.list. After you have done that (and updated apt with apt update), you can install these packages with apt install lsb-base lsb-release.

Now test installing your printer drivers and see if they work.

However, I am not sure if this will provide the necessary LSB feature set that your printer may need. You can also choose to go to the LSB main site and download and install the latest version of LSB manually if necessary.

I will recommend that if you need to support specific hardware not supported by Debian it may be best to change over to a Linux distro that supports your hardware. Your printer currently works using CUPS, however you are complaining that the configuration wastes ink and print jobs takes too long. You should look into or ask about how to get your CUPS configuration to a more desirable state if this solution does not work.

Answer 2

The package lsb is deprecated , debian recommend to create the deb package through alien (from rpm):

e,g (redhat-lsb):

sudo apt install alien
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/redhat-lsb-4.1-47.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo alien --to-deb -c redhat-lsb-4.1-47.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo apt install ./redhat-lsb_4.1-48_amd64.deb

Debian discontinued LSB support in 2015 ...

LSB applications are provided in either the RPM package format or in an LSB-compliant self-installing executable. In the case of RPM packages, use the alien(1) tool to convert the rpm to a Debian package and then install normally. Make sure to use the -c option to alien to ensure that package scripts are converted as well.

Debian LSB

Answer 3

My take: I installed an lsb-compat forward port deb package package which provides lsb. I downloaded it from an MX Linux forum: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=55746&hilit=lsb+compat#p555628

I was able to install the epson-inkjet-printer-scpr and the epson-printer-utility packages obtained from Epson after that. Shame on the printer manufacturers that they make us go through such hoops.

For the record I'm using https://devuan.org/ ceres, so I'm not with Linux Mint. Devuan is a Debian derivative.

Answer 4

I had the same issue, but it's very simple to repair.

Example: If you want the drivers for Epson SX410 Go to the official website

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule

And download your driver.

After download lsb_compat from here

https://debian.pkgs.org/9/debian-main-amd64/lsb-compat_9.20161125_amd64.deb.html

Now type on terminal

sudo dpkg -i lsb-compat_9.20161125_amd64.deb 

After you will have this error

lsb-compat depends from zlib1g:i386

Type

sudo apt install lib32z1

And automatically this set epson drivers ! :)

Answer 5

As for 2023, it seems lsb-compat (deb package) has been deleted from every archive I searched for.

I still have a copy that works, as a hope that someone in the future may need it. I'll upload it.

Try:

sudo apt install -y wget
wget https://archive.org/download/lsb-compat_9.20161125_amd64/lsb-compat_9.20161125_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./lsb-compat_9.20161125_amd64.deb

Hopefully, this helps someone someday.