Canon Scanner Ubuntu 21.10 Installation – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Downloading Canon Scanner Driver

   Download Canon Scanners Linux Drivers

   Canon ScanGear .deb Driver

   Get Canon ScanGear Scanner GNU/Linux Driver.

   Search for “linux [myCanonModRounded]”
   You Need to Round Down the Scanner Model Number As here Below…
   Eg: for ‘mx472’ search for “linux mx470”
   And for ‘MG2240’ search for “linux MG2200”

3. 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.

   

4. 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"

   Authenticate with the User Admin Pass.