Epson XP-245

[aussie1]

What i did was installed the printer drivers first followed by the print utility, and when i was installing the scanner driver i followed the README.rst and when i got to the part ./install.sh and this is what i get:

Hit:1 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease                                                       
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                         
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease                                           
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease                       
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]                       
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease                               
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]                                   
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed InRelease [253 kB]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]                                                                                                                               
Fetched 560 kB in 12s (43.4 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                             
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libboost-filesystem1.62.0
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libboost-filesystem1.62.0'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost-filesystem1.62.0'
E: Unable to locate package libboost-program-options1.62.0
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libboost-program-options1.62.0'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost-program-options1.62.0'
E: Unable to locate package libboost-system1.62.0
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libboost-system1.62.0'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost-system1.62.0'
E: Unable to locate package libjpeg62-turbo
derek@derek-desktop:~/Downloads/imagescan-bundle-debian-9-1.3.25.x86.deb$

[ptyerman]

Wait a minute! Quote from your post.

derek@derek-desktop:~/Downloads/imagescan-bundle-debian-9-1.3.25.x86.deb$

You have the wrong driver, your trying to install the DEBIAN driver, you need the UBUNTU x86 32 bit driver.

[aussie1]

I downloaded the Ubuntu 17.10 32bit (i386, is that the right one ?

[ptyerman]

No, you need Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit.

[aussie1]

This time i downloaded the right file and followed the readme and did this:

  tar xaf imagescan-bundle-ubuntu-16.04-1.3.25.x86.deb.tar.gz
  cd imagescan-bundle-ubuntu-16.04-1.3.25.x86.deb
  ./install.sh

Is the scanner driver now installed ?

[ptyerman]

No idea, what did it tell you after you typed ./install.sh?
You should have got some confirmation in the terminal if it installed or not once it finished. One way of checking is to look in the Graphics section of your start menu, if Imagescan is there then it's installed it. Load it up and try your scanner.

[aussie1]

This is the result of the install:

derek@derek-desktop:~/Downloads/imagescan-bundle-ubuntu-16.04-1.3.25.x86.deb$ ./install.sh
[sudo] password for derek:
Selecting previously unselected package imagescan.
(Reading database ... 393695 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../imagescan_3.35.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04_i386.deb ...
Unpacking imagescan (3.35.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Selecting previously unselected package imagescan-plugin-ocr-engine.
Preparing to unpack .../imagescan-plugin-ocr-engine_1.0.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04_i386.deb ...
Unpacking imagescan-plugin-ocr-engine (1.0.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Selecting previously unselected package imagescan-plugin-networkscan.
Preparing to unpack .../imagescan-plugin-networkscan_1.1.1-1epson4ubuntu16.04_i386.deb ...
Unpacking imagescan-plugin-networkscan (1.1.1-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Selecting previously unselected package imagescan-plugin-gt-s650.
Preparing to unpack .../imagescan-plugin-gt-s650_1.0.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04_i386.deb ...
Unpacking imagescan-plugin-gt-s650 (1.0.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Setting up imagescan (3.35.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...
Setting up imagescan-plugin-gt-s650 (1.0.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Setting up imagescan-plugin-ocr-engine (1.0.0-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Setting up imagescan-plugin-networkscan (1.1.1-1epson4ubuntu16.04) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

lsusb:

Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:0971 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:1116 Seiko Epson Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID ffc0:0004 
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[ptyerman]

Seems OK from that. Load up Imagescan or Xsane or other scanning software and try it out. You should have a lot less troublesome experience than me with it being directly connected through USB, setting the scanner up for networking was a right pain in the butt!

[aussie1]

I did a scan with Xsane and it now works perfectly, cheers for all your help i appreciate it !

[ptyerman]

Great! The functions of these Epson printers in Linux work brilliantly once setup, I think you'll be happy with the results.  8)