Canon Legacy Driver Installation for Mint 17.x
Hello Mint User! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Needed Dependencies for Canon Printer Legacy Driver on Linux Mint 17.x Qiana/Rafaela/Rebecca/Rosa 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.
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Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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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
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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
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How to Install Canon Printers Driver on Mint