Need help installing driver for Canon LBP2900B printer
So I downloaded the official drivers for this printer from Canon website (as show on the screenshot), it comes with both .deb and .rpm files. but I have no idea how to install them. Can somebody explain to me how to install it, please?
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rpm files can be installed with rpm-ostree install <rpm file>
and that should only be used if you can't use the preloaded drivers provided by CUPSThe thing is that there's no preloaded driver for this particular printer. So I guess using rpm-ostree is my only choice
Tried to install cndrvcups-common-3.21-1.x86_64.rpm, got "no such file or directory" error
Trying to install cndrvcups-capt-2.71-1.x86_64.rpm resulted in dependencies issues
upon further examination, I notice that your driver's release date is may 2017
don't think it's gonna work like that
Yeah, they're quite old
There's no newer official drivers unfortunately
if you want to engage in some roundabout fun: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1ckrrqp/cups_driver_in_distrobox/
https://github.com/archisman-panigrahi/ubuntu_canon_printer?tab=readme-ov-file
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Script for installing the Linux CAPT Printer Driver for Canon LBP printers on Ubuntu (both 32-bit and 64-bit) - archisman-panigrahi/ubuntu_canon_printer
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Driver for Canon CAPT printers. Contribute to mounaiban/captdriver development by creating an account on GitHub.
Thank you for the provided sources! One more question, to build captdriver it requires to use aclocal, autoconf and automake. I couldn't figure out how to install them on Bazzite on my own, so I'd like to know how
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Got it, thank you
Finally managed to build the required
rastertocapt file, only thing left is to move that file to /usr/lib/cups/filter/ directory, but the system doesn't allow to transfer even with opening directory using sudo.