Trouble installin the linux driver for my Canon mp510 printer.

Blake_rsh · 02-26-2012, 12:26 PM

Im having a problem installing the driver for my Canon MP510 printer on fedora 16.

I downloaded the drivers from canon´s official page

This should be the files i need:
cnijfilter-common-2.70-2.src.rpm
cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386.rpm

This is what i get:

Code:

 [root@localhost ~]# cd /home/Donati/incoming
 [Blake@Praznotia Linux_Print_Filterv270]$ rpm -i cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386.rpm
 error: Failed dependencies:
        cnijfilter-common >= 2.70 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
        libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
        libpopt.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
        libxml.so.1 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
 [Blake@Praznotia Linux_Print_Filterv270]$ rpm -i cnijfilter-common-2.70-2.src.rpm
 warning: user adminv270 does not exist - using root
 warning: group adminv270 does not exist - using root
 warning: user adminv270 does not exist - using root
 warning: group adminv270 does not exist - using root

I found I thread with the same problem but old and for linpus linux, so i couldn get it to work on fedora. Here is the thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rinter-711985/

bigrigdriver · 02-26-2012, 04:44 PM

Let's start with cnijfilter-common-2.70-2.src.rpm. This is a source rpm which must be compiled to build the installable binary rpm. As root, install the .src.rpm, then look in /usr/src/.../SOURCE (... varies among the rpm using distros) for the source tarball. Look in /usr/src/.../SPECS for the rpm spec file which directs rpm in the building of the binary rpm. Cd to the SPECS folder, then run ./<filename>.spec (<filename> is the name of the file) to build the rpm. When it has run to completion and assuming no errors, you will have an installable rpm in /usr/src/.../RPMS.

Quote:

error: Failed dependencies:
cnijfilter-common >= 2.70 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386

Rpm is telling you that you need to install the binary rpm built from the .src.rpm as described above.

Quote:

libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
libpopt.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386
libxml.so.1 is needed by cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386

You also need to install these libraries, which should be in the Fedora repo. Just use yum to install them.

Blake_rsh · 02-27-2012, 10:54 AM

I installed the missing libraries and found where the spec file is. It was in /home/rpmbuild/SPECS. But now i´m hitting another bump:

I get this although i´m logged as root.

Code:

[root@Praznotia SPECS]# ./cnijfilter-common.spec
bash: ./cnijfilter-common.spec: Permission denied

John VV · 02-27-2012, 07:58 PM

to build a rpm source file you NEED rpm-build installed and configured
also you do not build a rpm as root ( that WILL cause errors )
you make a NEW user account " makerpm "

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to...an_RPM_package

that rpm binary file "cnijfilter-mp510-2.70-2.i386.rpm" was last updated in 2008
- according to the cannon website -
and might not even work on the current fedora
fedora 16 might be WAY too new
libgtk-1.2 dates back to 2001
fedora 16 is using gnome 3 and gtk3.3
however there is an old 1.2 "gtk+-1.2.10-71.fc15.i686.rpm" that might work

cannon is not known for support other than for MS windows
so it is very common for cannon hardware to NEVER work on linux OR on Apples Mac