Installing Canon TS6151 printer on Mint Sylvia

[chushingura]

Hi, Can anyone help with the installation of the Canon TS6151 on Mint Sylvia.I have installed various drivers but the computer only sees the printer as off or unplugged. (SOLVED)

[brian_p]

Hi, Can anyone help with the installation of the Canon TS6151 on Mint Sylvia.I have installed various drivers but the computer only sees the printer as off or unplugged.

Please give some detail regarding these "various drivers". Their names, how you installed them etc.

[chushingura]

Here is the page. https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/port ... ds-drivers

[brian_p]

Is

https://wiki.debian.org/PrintQueuesCUPS#canon

any help?

[chushingura]

403 forbidden

[brian_p]

403 forbidden

It's ok from here. Are you using a VPN?

[chushingura]

yes I am! Trying again.

[chushingura]

tar -zxvf cnijfilter..... .tar.gz
tar (child): cnijfilter.....: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[brian_p]

yes I am! Trying again.

The Debian wiki is protecting itself against what it sees as known sources of spam.

Download the cnijfilter inkjet package offered by Canon

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tar zxvf cnijfilter..... .tar.gz
cd cnijfilter......-deb
./install.sh

[brian_p]

The actual names of the package and the directory you have is known to you. The dots are placeholders.

[chushingura]

Same result.

[ClixTrix]

yes I am! Trying again.

The Debian wiki is protecting itself against what it sees as known sources of spam.

Download the cnijfilter inkjet package offered by Canon

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tar zxvf cnijfilter..... .tar.gz
cd cnijfilter......-deb
./install.sh

I believe the installer script requires sudo.

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sudo ./install.sh

[brian_p]

Same result.

You have downloaded cnijfilter2-5.50-1-deb.tar.gz. Are you saying

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tar zvxf cnijfilter2-5.50-1-deb.tar.gz

doesn't work to unpack the file?

[chushingura]

command not found

[brian_p]

command not found

tar should be on your system. It is an essential file.

[chushingura]

Well, yes. I can't even get past the sudo stage. (sudo: ./install.sh: command not found)

[brian_p]

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tar zvxf cnijfilter2-5.50-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter2-5.50-1-deb
sudo ./install.sh

[ClixTrix]

Just saw something obvious .... probably why the file isn't found.

If the OP downloaded to the Downloads directory (good guess), need to add a CD (change directory) to the Downloads directory before the "tar" step. Note, the first letter of Downloads is capped.

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cd Downloads

[chushingura]

Nothing here seems to work, I either get sudo (command not found) or canon package (tar -zxvf cnijfilter..... .tar.gz
tar (child): cnijfilter.....: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now) ????

[brian_p]

As ClixTrix says - you need to be in the directory where the file has been downloaded. Give us the output of

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ls -l Downloads