Canon Legacy Driver Dependencies Installation Ubuntu 16.04
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Needed Dependencies for Canon Printer Legacy Driver on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus LTS GNU/Linux.
This because in origin the Canon Legacy Driver has been done for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, and so we Need to Setup some of those Legacy Packages.
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Open a Terminal Shell emulator window
Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands) -
Then Install libpango1.0 and libpng12.
sudo apt install libpango1.0-0 libpng12-0
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Add the Ubuntu Precise Extra Packages Repo.
sudo su -c "echo 'deb [trusted=yes] http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main universe' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extra.list"
apt update
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Installing libtiff4.
apt install libtiff4:i386 libtiff4
apt -f install
exit
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
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Restore Ubuntu Xenial Repo.
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extra.list
apt update
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How to Install Canon Printers Driver on Ubuntu