Hi everyone,

I am using Ubuntu 11 and have a 64-bit machine. I posted this problem on Ubuntu and Mint forums but nobody seems to be able to help me and I guess this is a really tough problem.

What I am trying to do is run 'alien' command to convert *.rpm into *.deb format. Trouble is that I have a 64-bit architecture so when I do this:

I get this:


It seems impossible that there is no workaround to this problem. Does anybody know how this problem could be fixed?

P.S. there is an out-of-the-box *.deb version provided by Canon but in order for driver installation to work Canon's *.rpm driver must be converted into *.deb.

Please see this thread on why it is so.

Help?

Thank you,
Victor.

Have you tried converting the x64 version instead of the i386 version?

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is only i386 version available

... And the driver is also i386 only.

The solution seems to be here
http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/how-to-...-debian-linux/

I.e. unpack cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.i386.rpm with :
rpm2cpio cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv
And next : sudo cp <required-files> <destination>/

..

Hi,

Thank you kindly for this link. The solution helped me install the driver but I am getting "scheduler could not execute a filter" error. No matter how I try to implement various suggestions I googled to change permissions of /usr/lib/cups/filter or /usr/lib64/cups/filter I keep getting the same error