How to Install Canon SELPHY Printer on Red Hat Linux

GNU/Linux Red Hat Install Canon SELPHY Printer Setup – QuickStart Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Canon SELPHY Printer in Red Hat Enterprise 7.x/8.x/9.x GNU/Linux Desktops.

Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary SELPHY Linux Driver.

So to Install Canon SELPHY Printers on Linux we’ll make use of the Gutenprint suite Drivers release.

Because Gutenprint is a Suite of Printer Drivers that may be Used with most common UNIX Print Spooling Systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.

And Gutenprint Drivers provide High Quality Printing for UNIX and Linux systems in many cases Equal to or Better than Proprietary Vendor-supplied Drivers.

Most Noteworthy, before installation Check Gutenprint Driver Canon SELPHY Supported Models.

Finally, after the Driver Setup to achieve the Printer Installation, follow instructions to Add Printer!

1. 1. Launching Terminal

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

   

2. 2. Installing Dependencies

   Now to Install Required Packages
   Simply play:

   sudo yum install cups-devel

3. 3. Downloading GutenPrint

   Download GutenPrint Source for Linux

   GutenPrint tar.xz Source

   Gutenprint GNU/Linux Source.

4. 4. Extracting GutenPrint

   Possibly Double-Click on Archive
   And Extract into /tmp:

   

   Or from Shell:

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

5. 5. Installing GutenPrint

   Installing Gutenprint on Red Hat Linux
   Run one by one:

   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 into the README File…