Install Canon MP790 Printer Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Canon PIXMA MP790 Driver on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.
Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary MP568 Ubuntu 18.04 Driver.
So to Install Canon MP790 on Ubuntu we’ll make use of the Gutenprint suite Drivers release.
And Gutenprint is a Suite of Printer Drivers that may be Used with most common UNIX Print Spooling Systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.
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First, Open Terminal Window
Ctrl+Alt+t
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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Then Install Required Packages
First, Update the Apt repositories:sudo apt update
And Setup the tools:
sudo apt install gcc libtool libssl-dev libc-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev cups
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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 Ubuntu.
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…