[Gllug] The chase for Epson printer drivers

[Don Williams]

Hi - I had decided after installing Debian 4 (KDE) and discovering a laxity of 
HP's "LIP" Linux driver set-up to change printers to the other "recommended" 
supplier - Epson.
	OK, much more searching. To come across the basic problem: that new printers 
are on sale long before Linux drivers (of any source) for them become 
available - also that most Linux drivers available are for old, discontinued 
printers. But some (HP and Epson) printers, I was informed, were almost 
generically provided for.
	Anyway, after here and there, including the Epson website, it seemed the 
simple, cheap, and available Epson D78 had a provided driver - so I bought 
the printer.
	Once home, the printer-installing part of the KDE Control Centre showed only 
drivers for the D68 and D88 printers, but not for D78. Back to the Epson 
website and lo and behold it told me of the AVASYS website, where lay the 
driver I needed. Yep - it actually said Linux driver for the D78! So I 
downloaded that zipped file. Unzipping it showed it was an rpm file (not 
deb).
	OK, I recalled using alien to "fix" a file once when using SUSE, so I 
installed that, but sadly alien -d doesn't see the pips-3.0.1.src.rpm file.
	I think that all I want to do is install this driver. But how do I? Any 
advice/comment would be gratefully acknowledged ...
	Don	
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