Step-by-step – Canon Scanner Installation in Ubuntu 20.04 Guide

Installing

2. 3. Extracting Canon Scanner Driver

   Confirm to Open with Archive Manager on Browser
   Or after Double-Click/Right-Click on Scanner Driver:
   (When Downloaded with Firefox may be located in /tmp/mozilla* Dir)

   

   And Extract into the /tmp Directory.

   

3. 4. Installing Canon Scanner Driver

   Now to Install Canon Scanner Driver
   First, access the Target directory with:

   cd /tmp/scangear*

   And then Run the installation Script:

   sudo ./install.sh

   During installation you may be Asked to Connect & Power On your Scanner…
   
   Now if in the Output you find trace of some Missing Package then try first to execute:

   cd /tmp/scangear*/packages

   sudo su -c "apt-get install gdebi"

   sudo su -c "gdebi ./*.deb"

4. 5. Get Started Scanning

   How to Get Started Scanning on Ubuntu Linux

   GNU/Linux Scanning Quick Start Guide

   GNU/Linux Scanner Quick Start Guide.