Canon SELPHY CP500 Fedora Driver Install
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Canon SELPHY CP500 Fedora Driver.
Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary SELPHY CP500 Linux Driver.
So to Install Canon SELPHY CP500 on Fedora we’ll make use of the Gutenprint suite Drivers release.
Because Gutenprint is a Suite of Printer Drivers that may be Used with most common UNIX Print Spooling Systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.
Finally, Gutenprint Drivers provide High Quality Printing for UNIX and Linux systems in many cases Equal to or Better than Proprietary Vendor-supplied Drivers.
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Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
Start Typing ‘term’ on Desktop.
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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Then Install Required Packages.
sudo yum install cups-devel
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Download GutenPrint Source for Linux
Grab the Latest gutenprint tar.bz2 file.
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Next Double-Click on Archive
And Extract into /tmpOr from Shell:
tar xvf ~/Downloads/gutenprint*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp
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Finally, Install Gutenprint for Fedora.
cd /tmp/gutenprint*
./configure
make clean
make
sudo make install
The Installation will be Quickly Achieved in about 5 Minutes.
For further Instructions and Details Look to the README File…