Installing Kodak Printer...?

[stargate]

Hello,
my Sabayon runs excellently.
Which does not function is my printer of Kodak.
The installation of drivers does not belong unfortunately to my strengths.
A All-In-One ESP 5250. I already found the necessary driver and download it.
(c2esp-24.ebuild)
How I can install now this driver… ???

[DJ A. J. Slye]

Kodak does not support Linux in any way shape or form, they have already stated that writing and supporting any Linux drivers would cost to much with little return, any support would be through third party or community written drivers. An ebuild is just instructions for portage to download, compile, and install software, the easiest way to install that driver would be to sync portage and emerge the driver from the Gentoo overlay, otherwise you might want to make a request for the driver to be added to Sabayon's repositories.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I don't have your printer, but the following would be the way to install the package you mentioned via Portage.

STAGE 1

Before doing any of the steps in STAGE 2, users of Sabayon Linux also need to set up their installation to use Portage for the first time if they have not done so already:

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equo install git # Sabayon overlays use Git.
emerge --sync # Download ebuilds from Gentoo ebuild repositories.
layman -S # Get list of 3rd party overlays,
layman -d sabayon # In case old Sabayon overlay was already added. Ignore error message, if any.
layman -d sabayon-distro # In case 2nd new split Sabayon overlay was already added. Ignore error message, if any.
layman -a sabayon # Add 1st new split Sabayon overlay.
layman -a  sabayon-distro # Add 2nd new split Sabayon overlay.
layman -S # Make sure all overlays are synced.

(Not all of the above steps are strictly necessary, but I don't know what you have done, so the above covers all eventualities.)

STAGE 2

Use Portage to install the package:

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emerge -1v c2esp

STAGE 3

Launch a Web browser and enter http://localhost:631/ into the Address bar in order to use the CUPS manager. Use CUPS to install the printer.