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mijn printer heeft een scanner (hpC4580) hoe kan ik gebruikmaken van de volledige functionaliteit van mijn printer in ubuntu

Asked by Shabakthanai

I downloaded drivers to fix my printer problems. They are either RPM or .bin. How do I install them in Feisty? In fact I have other potential fixes to other problems sitting on my desktop in either RPM or .bin. I don't know what KDE program is used to open such files. When I try to install, I get notified that if I proceed the file will become corrupted. Not Quite at the High Level of Newbie yet.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

You have to download appropriate drivers for your distribution. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, you have to download debian packages (usually ending in .deb ).
You can check what format a file is with the command "file". For instance:

cesare@desktop:~$ file alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k

cesare@desktop:~$ file apport_0.83_all.deb
apport_0.83_all.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0)

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Best Shabakthanai (stevenvollom) said : 		#2

Hello Cesare,

I just solved my problem by installing a drive for a model close in number as my printer, and it works now. However that doesn't solve my problem of not understanding your explanation. (Windows only for 15 years). Would it look like this if I were looking for Epson Drivers?

Studio25@desktop:~$ file epson-driver-pips-sc880-2.a.2-3.i386.rpm
epson-driver-pips-sc880-2.a.2-3.i386.rpm????????????I am so confused and don't know what to look for where, in the way of information. My desktop is cluttered with RPM and .bin files that are potential solutions for problems relating to my OS, however, I am always stopped because the fix requires the ability to work with RPM and .bin.

I am not going to give up, but getting over the hump of this problem will be a major victory. I feel so stupid.

Thanks for trying.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#3

Try having a look at this. It should clarify few things:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareManagement

Especially:

Installing Software
Software Packaging Formats

Although not required, some Linux executables use the .bin "extension". Again, you can check with file:

cesare@desktop:~$ file valgrind.bin
valgrind.bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

Note that ELF (Executable and Linking Format) is the real format (bin is just a tag).

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Rajath (y-s-rajath) said : 		#4

use alien(search for this in synaptic) for generating .deb from .rpm