Hello,
Unfortunately I am in despair. I’ve been fiddling with my driver for days and now it’s finally broken.
So that you know what’s going on, here’s the story from the beginning.
I installed the driver for my Epson 2530WF in November 2023 using yay
yay -S epson-inkjet-printer-201211w
It then worked for almost two years without any problems, but then there was an update and it no longer worked. It’s the same error that I’m now getting again with yay, which says :
AUR Explicit (1): epson-inkjet-printer-201211w-1.0.1-1
AUR Dependency (1): epson-inkjet-printer-filter-1.0.2-6
:: PKGBUILD is up to date, skip Download: epson-inkjet-printer-filter
:: (0/1) Failed to update PKGBUILD: epson-inkjet-printer-201211w
-> Error retrieving epson-inkjet-printer-201211w: Fatal: No Git repository (or any parent directory up to mount point /)
Stop at file system boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
context: exit status 128
As a result, I did things that I never do, because I didn’t know how else to help myself, I just tried to solve the problem somehow.
I went to ArchAUR-Repository and searched for the page for the driver and found it here.
This is the page with my printer and I downloaded the sources, then I unpacked it with Dolphin and even found the 1.0.2 which I then configured without AUR-Helper with
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
built with
make
and installed it with
sudo make install
The new driver was not recognised and yay still spit out the error, but my printer printed, so half as bad.
Then I visited the Epson site and was able to find my driver. It was also available as an rpm file. I unpacked it and found only a raw folder structure, without configure, make, etc.
I then copied it into my directories and was finally able to select 1.0.1 with CUPS. Previously had the 1.0.0. Printer also printed but the error message from yay was still there. Because of this I sat down and wrote my own PKGBUILD, because according to yay it could not update itself. The PKGBUILD is ready, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Today I wanted to eliminate all problems with the aur driver by simply removing it, since I had also printed with CUPS with the manually installed driver, as it looked. The uninstallation went smoothly. Unfortunately, my printing has not worked since then. No more test page, no more nothing. The printer is in CUPS as before, but it no longer twitches.
Then I just wanted to put the AUR driver back on with
yay -S epson-inkjet-printer-201211w
but it doesn’t work, I get the error message from above. Now I also have the driver /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201211w/ in /opt/ but it doesn’t print. I still have a Sanpshopt from a week ago, but is there any other way to solve the problem?
I mean you can see the PKGBUILD which is online, I mean the one from Vitalii Kuzhdin
There is also a filter driver
Does anyone have any idea what’s going on ?
I want to print again ? I am so sad now