Canon MP540 printer installation.

[britrail]

I have a Canon MP540 printer, which I am having problems getting to work. I have downloaded from the Canon site Debian driver files MP540_debian-driver.tar, but do not know what to do to install them.

I look forward to getting some help. BTW I am a Mint newbie.

[hemimaniac]

extract the .tar to a working folder, you may wind up with 2 folders in side the main, then look for the .deb files, right click and open with Gdeb installer.

For future reference most .tar , .tar.gz packages are builds, and the INSTALL or README notes usually have this info

[britrail]

I've tried this but just get a message about missing dependencies

[hemimaniac]

what dependancies are you missing, you can probably apt-get them or find them in synaptic

[britrail]

I am unable to do this at the moment. Will try later and come back to you.

[britrail]

Hi I have had another go at installing. The Scangear part loaded ok, but when I tried to install the common printer driver I got the message " cnijfilter -common depends on libcupsys 2 (>2-1.2.1) however package libcupsys2 is not installed.

What can i do know ?

Tried MP540 driver and got message Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: cnijfilter-common (>= 3.00)

[hemimaniac]

Hi I have had another go at installing. The Scangear part loaded ok, but when I tried to install the common printer driver I got the message " cnijfilter -common depends on libcupsys 2 (>2-1.2.1) however package libcupsys2 is not installed.

What can i do know ?

Tried MP540 driver and got message Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: cnijfilter-common (>= 3.00)

When you see "depends on" open synaptic and put the dependency in the search bar, in this case libcupsys, and you will see a package or app that has it as a dependency and you can install it that way.

[britrail]

There is no libcupsys in my synaptic.

[vincent]

vincent@Vincent-laptop ~ $ apt search libcupsys2
v libcupsys2 -
v libcupsys2-dev -

Apparently there is, actually. Just type in the following in a terminal:

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sudo apt-get install libcupsys2

[britrail]

Tried this and got message.

sudo apt-get install libcupsys2
[sudo] password for bernard:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libcupsys2 is a virtual package provided by:
libcups2 1.4.2-10
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package libcupsys2 has no installation candidate
bernard@bernard-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get install libcups2 1.4.2-10
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libcups2 is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package 1.4.2-10

[britrail]

Posted same query in Ubuntu forum and got this message reply. The thread leads to a very complicated, to me, solution.

Here is the message that has just been posted:
***************
Libcupsys2 has been superceded by libcup2 which is causing your problems.
Try the following thread - hope it helps
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305248

[Dutchmaster]

If you go to the Canon site in Austrailia (http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search ... u=Download), you can find the .deb drivers. Then it's easy.

[britrail]

Finally solved my problem with this solution.

[QUOTE=Xero Xenith;8197963]Nice guide, but did you try just installing the dummy package from Jaunty?[/QUOTE]