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how to instal canon i250 driver on knoppix
Hello,
I'm having troubles to instal my canon i250 printer on a knoppix linux. I found the driver for Red Hat 9.0 but it seems it doesn't work on knoppix due to a problem related to CUPS.
I'm not a linux expert, so... can anybody give me easy-to-follow advice on this?
Thanks,
Túpac.
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Senior Member
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I'm not sure why you are trying to use a driver from Red Hat?
You didn't say what version of knoppix you are running but to install a printer
go to the kmenu, settings, and click Printing Manager.
From the Printing Manager you can choose to install a new printer
a wizard will guide you though the set up of your printer.
If you run into problems post the errors and anything else that happens.
Good luck!
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I'm using a knoppix 3.0 and have already tried the printing manager. The thing is the i250 canon printer is not one of the listed printers. So I had to search on the internet for the drivers and found them but, as I said, they do not work because I guess they are made for Red Hat.
Any other clue? Thanks for your help.
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Senior Member
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Well I don't know if it will work for this situation. You could use alien to convert
the rpm to a deb package and then install the driver using dpkg.
Go here: http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ to read about alien.
I have used alien to convert and install some software and as I said I don't know
if it will work for your driver but it might.
The basic steps are at the command line ( a terminal window) alien -d /home/myname/thepackageIwanttoconvert
Of course you have to use the actual file names you have. if the driver converts then you do dpkg -i "myconvertedpackage"
The easier way might be to just install a later version of knoppix or debian testing, but that's your call.
Good Luck! Let me/this commmunity know if it works
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