Kodak ESP 5200 AiO printer

[Bloggsworth]

Thank you Doc, unfortunately it is a 32bit computer.

[doktor5000]

No problem, will take a look to rebuild it for i586 - if iurt doesn't fail again this time.
But you can try that for yourself. It's exṕlained here: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=5530
Here's the src.rpm:

c2esp-2.6-1.mga4.src.rpm

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[doktor5000]

This is for i586, freshly rebuilt via iurt:

c2esp-2.6-1.mga4.i586.rpm

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[Bloggsworth]

Downloaded it, opened it in Ark, at that point I was lost, I was at the same point as I was before. I really am clueless, I don't understand the instructions, I did the urpmi thing as root and was told it couldn't find the file even though I was in the download directory, and I had no idea where to go or how to tell it to get there. In ordinary Konsole the rpmi command isn't recognised; so I thought I'd better stop before I crashed the system. You must remember I really am seven kinds of stupid when dealing with instructions...

[benmc]

hi

If you havent worked out how to install the file Doktor5000 provided try this
Download the file if you havent already.
Right click on the file - do not open with Ark.
next line under " Ark " is ' Software installer '.
click on this line:

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you will then get a dialogue box:

RPMinst1.png (23.17 KiB) Viewed 2670 times

click install and enter root password at the prompt, and then accept package installation dependencies if required.

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If you plug the printer in, then go to Mageia Control Center, => Hardware tab / configure printer and scanning should get you up and running

regards

Benmc

[Bloggsworth]

Thanks for that benmc, but as my neighbour knows even less than I do, I decided to go with Zorin8, as it has the most Windows-like interface so she would not find the environment too strange.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks