installation canon pixma mp 230

when installing scangear (using scangearmp-mp230series2.0-1-deb) for canon pixma mp230 it stops with

 Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: scangearmp-common (>= 2.00),   

and scanimage -L responds

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Solution 1:

Try to download the official tar.gz from canon-asia.com (I had to choose the MP237 instead of the MP230, but that works too) , uncompress it, enter into the recent created directory, and then execute the following command:

sudo ./install.sh

It will install (in order) two packages that are inside the subdirectory 'packages', in first place the "common" package, and in second place the "mp230series" package.

Solution 2:

The best thing you can do is download the printer driver and scanner driver from the Canon Asia website.

After you downloaded the packages follow the Canon installation guides:

• Printerdriver installation

• Scannerdriver installation

I recomend using the method Installing the ScanGear by specifying the package, since you seem to have trouble with the common package.