installing MP -190

Steve yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 28 11:29:40 UTC 2009


On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:55:54 -0000, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>> >
>>
>> Did either of you look at the link I provided... perhaps:
>> http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-Pixma_MP190
>>
>
> Yes, I did.  Could not follow it well enough to do what needs doing.
>
>> <quote>
>> Oct. 28, 2009
>> Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic:
>> The manufacturer DEB drivers have dependency issues since libcupsys is
>> now libcups in karmic. To install the drivers, extract the .deb packages
>> and manually copy the files to you filesystem. Then you need to manually
>> specify the canonmp190.ppd in your printer configuration. It seems you
>> must also set the file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij to be owned by
>> root and have read-only permissions for everyone.
>> </quote>
>> will be of help?
>>
>
>
> I think what I need to know is 1) where in the system to copy the files  
> to
> (or does it matter) and 2) how to set the file  
> r/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij
> to be owned byroot and have read-only permissions for everyone.  And  
> maybe
> 3) manually specify the canonmp190.ppd in your printer configuration, but
> maybe that will be clear as I go.
>
> thanks!
>
>
I was confused by this as well.

I did find this link that I used to install a different Canon printer in  
November (couldn’t find it yesterday)
http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?25,10678,10723,quote=1



-- 
Steve




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