Printer Canon MP790 Driver Linux Mint 19 How to Install

Install Canon MP790 Printer Linux Mint 19

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Canon PIXMA MP790 Driver on Linux Mint 19.x Tara/Tessa/Tina/Tricia LTS Desktop.

Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary MP568 Linux Mint 19.x Tara/Tessa/Tina/Tricia Driver.

So to Install Canon MP790 on Linux Mint 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.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

2. 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

3. Download GutenPrint Source for Linux

   GutenPrint Linux Source

   Gutenprint GNU/Linux Source

   Grab the Latest gutenprint tar.bz2 file.

4. Next Double-Click on Archive
   And Extract into /tmp

   

   Or from Shell:

   tar xvf ~/Downloads/gutenprint*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp

5. Finally, Install Gutenprint for Linux Mint.

   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…