How to Install Canon Printer Driver Dependencies on Linux Mint 18.x

February 23, 2017 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

Canon Legacy Driver Installation for Mint 18.x

Hello Mint User! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Needed Dependencies for Canon Printer Legacy Driver on Linux Mint 18.x Sarah/Serena/Sonya/Sylvia LTS GNU/Linux.

This because in origin the Canon Driver has been done for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, and so we Need to Setup some of those Legacy Packages.

How to Install Canon Printer Driver Dependencies on Mint 18.x - Featured
  1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    How to Install Canon Printer Driver Dependencies on Mint 18.x - Open Terminal
  2. Add the Ubuntu Precise Extra Packages Repo.

    sudo su

    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

    echo 'deb [trusted=yes] http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main universe' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extra.list
    apt-get update
  3. Installing libtiff4 & libpango1.

    apt install libpango1.0-0:i386 libpango1.0-0 
    libtiff4:i386 libtiff4
    apt-get -f install
    exit

    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

  4. How to Install Canon Printers Driver on Mint

    Installed Canon Printer Driver

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