Canon ip7210 Drivers installation
How to install a Canon IP7210 on a 20.04 having .deb packages problems dependencies manually?.
Context:
dpkg: problemas de dependencias impiden la configuración de cnijfilter-ip7200series: cnijfilter-ip7200series depende de `libpng12-0` (>= 1.2.8rel); sin embargo:
El paquete `libpng12-0` no está instalado.
cnijfilter-ip7200series depende de `libtiff4`; sin embargo:
El paquete `libtiff4` no está instalado.
It was a question, until find this post and making these steps:
- Download the .tar.gz printer driver's
- Download the old multiarch support (x64)
- Download the corresponding tiff lib (x64) requested (located in universe)
- Resolve
libpng12-0
package dependency (searched and located):
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/libpng12
$ sudo apt-get update
Then, proceed:
$ sudo dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install libpng12-0
Lastly we can run the install.sh inside printer drivers file (located inside uncompressed folder)
cnijfilter-ip7200series-3.80-1-deb$ sudo ./install.sh
Follow installation's guide steps to get printer working.