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Simply put, the install script dies after insistingNow, admittedly, this driver was downloaded from Canon Australia, but why should that make a difference? Or does it? Frustrating thing is, the Canon US site does not have this driver set available, to my knowledge. Anyone know how I can resolve this issue and get my printer's drivers installed?

remoulder wrote:https://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2011 ... ntu-setup/

Have tried that. For some off-the-wall reason (although I know the printer's IP address) the printer cannot be found by the OS, even after installing the drivers manually via GDebi (the install.sh files both failed with the indicated error). Ideas?

Also found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475336

so your issue is that canon's install script does not run;

if you have the drivers

(eg from here http://software.canon-europe.com/softwa ... asp?model=)

if you have extracted them; (by right-clicking and selecting archive manager)

you should be able to install them with the debian gdebi installer; that should just work fine for you

let us know how we can help you with the details of all of this

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if you help us understand which version of this

https://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2011 ... ntu-setup/

you used:

ie you could download the file from here

http://software.canon-europe.com/softwa ... asp?model=

or use the weget command

I wonder if you were in the correct directory to issue the command

sudo ./install.sh

you would need to be inside the directory

cnijfilter-mg5200series-3.40-1-deb/

ALSO: are you using 32bit or 64bit Mint: you are using Mint 10 ?

pdc_2 wrote:so your issue is that canon's install script does not run;

if you have the drivers

(eg from here http://software.canon-europe.com/softwa ... asp?model=)

if you have extracted them; (by right-clicking and selecting archive manager)

you should be able to install them with the debian gdebi installer; that should just work fine for you

let us know how we can help you with the details of all of this

____________

if you help us understand which version of this

https://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2011 ... ntu-setup/

you used:

ie you could download the file from here

http://software.canon-europe.com/softwa ... asp?model=

or use the weget command

I wonder if you were in the correct directory to issue the command

sudo ./install.sh

you would need to be inside the directory

cnijfilter-mg5200series-3.40-1-deb/

ALSO: are you using 32bit or 64bit Mint: you are using Mint 10 ?

Correctly installed the drivers (test-page successful) after following a file download from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475336, although I will need to revisit said link to correctly install the scanner driver. Marking as solved.

OS: Linux Mint 10 x64
MG5200 driver version: 3.4.0-1 x64 (IIRC)

It turns out that the script contains a serious oops that causes installs to fail if ANY rpm packages have been installed on the system. Commenting out the code and hardcoding the correct responses works, but downloading the corrected install.sh is easier. LOL

It seems you can't have both dpkg and rpm installed and run the install.sh script. I removed rpm, and googleearth along with it, and he install.sh script ran fine.