How to Install Canon Printer Driver Dependencies on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

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.

1. Open a Terminal Shell emulator window
   Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Then Install libpango1.0 and libpng12.

   sudo apt install libpango1.0-0 libpng12-0

3. 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

4. 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

5. Restore Ubuntu Xenial Repo.

   rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extra.list

   apt update

6. How to Install Canon Printers Driver on Ubuntu

   Installed Canon Printer Driver

   Canon Printer Ubuntu Driver