Kyocera Printer Elementary OS Installation – Step-by-step

Installing Driver

2. 2. Downloading Kyocera Printer Driver

   Download Kyocera Printer in Elementary OS GNU/Linux

   Kyocera Driver in Elementary OS

   Downloading Kyocera Printer in Elementary OS

   Search for your Printer Model and grab the Linux Driver.
   Here below you find instructions to Install the Linux Universal Driver, valid for most Kyocera Printers.
   Alternativelly for some Large Format Printer follow the instructions included in the README File.

3. 3. Extracting Kyocera Printer Driver

   Then Extract Kyocera Printer into /tmp Directory
   If it does Not Open automatically then Double-Click/Right-Click on File Manager:

   
   And again for the included Archive:
   
   Or from Command Line:

   sudo unzip ~/Downloads/Linux_Universal_Driver.zip

   If Not Unzip the first install it with:

   sudo apt install unzip

   And then:

   tar xvf ~/Downloads/KyoceraLinuxPackages*.tar.xz -C /tmp/

   But if you are in Trouble to Find Out it on Terminal See: How to Access Downloads Folder from Browser.

4. 4. Installing Kyocera Printer Driver

   Then to Install Kyocera Printer Driver on Elementary OS
   First, navigate to the Target Folder, you have 2 possible Regional options the EU and the Global release.
   For the First, one 64-bit:

   cd /tmp/Ubuntu/EU/kyodialog*64

   And so correspondly for the Global one play:

   cd /tmp/Ubuntu/Global/kyodialog*64

   Possibly for a 32-bit System replace 64 with 386 in the above Command.
   And then to Setup it simply play:

   sudo apt install ./kyodialog*64*

   Authenticate with the User Admin Pass.
   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo.