Installing Wireless Printer Epson Stylus Office BX305

tm2383 · 11-20-2013, 06:37 PM

Hi, I am trying to install the Epson workforce 320 driver on Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit. I am installing it using dns-sd. I accept the licence agreement, but each time I try to install the driver, it crashes 1/2 way through. How can I find out what is causing the crash. If I can't get a driver installed, I'll have to try another distro, so any advice from a Ubuntu expert out there would be appreciated.

Thanks :-)

munkz · 11-20-2013, 07:27 PM

Are you unable to see system logs anything?

On a working driver install I can see the following :
its fedora but I would imagine that apt generates logs as well

Code:

root@gerp Scripts]# grep -i epson /var/log/messages 
Nov 20 00:33:41 gerp yum[13616]: Installed: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64
Nov 20 00:36:31 gerp colord: Profile added: EPSON-XP-600-Series-Gray..
Nov 20 00:36:31 gerp colord: Profile added: EPSON-XP-600-Series-RGB..
Nov 20 00:36:31 gerp colord: Device added: cups-EPSON-XP-600-Series
Nov 20 00:38:14 gerp colord: device removed: cups-EPSON-XP-600-Series
Nov 20 00:38:14 gerp colord: Device added: cups-EPSON-XP-600-Series
Nov 20 14:48:19 gerp colord: Profile added: EPSON-XP-600-Series-Gray..
Nov 20 14:48:19 gerp colord: Profile added: EPSON-XP-600-Series-RGB..
Nov 20 14:48:19 gerp colord: Device added: cups-EPSON-XP-600-Series

And from my yum log since I used yum localinstall :

Code:

root@gerp Scripts]# grep 'Nov 20 00:3' /var/log/yum.log 
Nov 20 00:33:41 Installed: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64

On a debian based box I guess you would grep around in the following :

Code:

grep -i 'cup*\|epson' /var/log/{dpkg.log,faillog,apport.log}

That might show you something. Hope that helps. Maybe. TIMTOW