AUR package - epson-printer-utility

.nvchecker.toml

[epson-printer-utility]
source = "regex"
url = 'https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=US&CTI=177&PRN=Linux%20deb%2064bit%20package&OSC=LX'
regex = 'epson-printer-utility_(.*)-1_amd64.deb'
# user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

epson-printer-utility.install

post_install() {
  echo "The ecbd.service must be running for Epson Printer Utility to work."
  echo "Execute 'sudo systemctl enable --now ecbd.service' in a terminal."
}

post_upgrade() {
  post_install
}

PKGBUILD

# Maintainer:  darkelectron <darkelectron(at)mailfence.com>
# Contributor: Vitalii Kuzhdin <vitaliikuzhdin@gmail.com>
# Contributor: Lukas Michel <lgm(dot)aur(at)outlook(dot)de
# Contributor: Uladzimir Panasiuk <v.s.panasyuk+AUR(at)gmail.com>

pkgname="epson-printer-utility"
pkgver=1.2.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Epson inkjet printer utility used to check ink levels, view errors and other status messages"
arch=('x86_64') # 'armv7h'
url="https://download.ebz.epson.net/man/linux/utility.html"
license=('custom:Epson End User Software License Agreement') # 'LGPL-2.1-or-later'
depends=('cups' 'gcc-libs' 'glibc' 'libcups' 'libusb' 'qt5-base')
makedepends=('gzip')
install="${pkgname}.install"
_pkgsrc="${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
# source_armv7h=("${_pkgsrc}-armv7h.zip::https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/16/74/32/520f35a925a730ddee9b90c65b158272d4010783/${pkgname}_arm_${pkgver}.zip")
source_x86_64=("${_pkgsrc}-x86_64.deb::https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/16/74/30/9067c71049e81fbbee48a4695c5c0acf308b9f18/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb")
noextract=("${source_x86_64[@]%%::*}") # "${source_armv7h[@]%%::*}"
sha256sums_x86_64=('f0e1b61ef6beec5180f6cf31ffbb87f4831b81181ecface5e73d57037d914492')

prepare() {
  cd "${srcdir}"
  mkdir -p "${_pkgsrc}-${CARCH}"
  bsdtar -xf "${_pkgsrc}-${CARCH}.deb" data.tar.*
  bsdtar -xzf data.tar.* --strip-components 1 -C "${srcdir}/${_pkgsrc}-${CARCH}"
  rm -f data.tar.*

  find "${_pkgsrc}-${CARCH}" -type f -name '*.gz' -exec \
    gzip -fd "{}" \;
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgsrc}-${CARCH}/opt/${pkgname}"
  find "bin"            -type f -exec \
    install -vDm755 "{}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/{}" \;
  find "lib"            -type f -exec \
    install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/usr/{}" \;
  find "resource"       -type f -exec \
    install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/{}" \;
  find "rules"          -type f -name '*.rules' -execdir \
    install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/{}" \;
  # find "selinux-policy" -type f -exec \
  #   install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/{}" \;

  install -vDm644 "${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"

  cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgsrc}-${CARCH}/usr"
  find "share/doc" -type f \( ! -name '*LICENSE*' ! -name '*COPYING*' ! -name '*INSTALL*' ! -name '*ChangeLog*' \) -execdir \
    install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/{}" \;
  find "share/doc" -type f \( -name '*LICENSE*' -o -name '*COPYING*' \) -execdir \
    install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/{}" \;

  cd "lib"
  find "cups" -type f -exec \
    install -vDm755 "{}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/{}" \;

  cd "epson-backend"
  sed -i '/ecbd.conf/d' "ecbd.service"
  install -vDm644 "ecbd.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/ecbd.service"

  install -vDm755 "ecbd" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd"

  # find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.pp' -exec \
  #   install -vDm644 "{}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/epson-backend/{}" \;

  install -vdm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
  ln -vsf "/opt/${pkgname}/bin/${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
}

hello there, does this pkgbuild work? thank you

I have no idea; I don't own any Epson devices. Try it and report back.