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Canon i250
Submitted by davecs on 2006-03-09 17:07:35 This product has a rating of 4 out of 5 running under PCLinuxOS Comments: There are drivers available from Canon New Zealand. They seem to be designed for Red Hat, and have some odd dependencies. First you need the drivers which you can get from here: http://canon.co.nz/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/i250_drivers.html The ones you need are bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm and bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm The dependencies needed are libglade.so.0 and libpng.so.2 . You will need to see whether such files exist in /usr/lib and if they do not, you will have to create symlinks to other suitable library files. In PCLinuxOS I typed the following three lines into a terminal as root. Yours may be different: cd /usr/lib ln -s libglade-2.0.so.0 libglade.so.0 ln -s libpng.so.3 libpng.so.2 Then I installed the drivers using "nodeps". cd /where I downloaded drivers rpm -i --nodeps bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm rpm -i --nodeps bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm Finally, in order to fix the package database, I had to remove the entries from it: rpm -e --justdb bjfilteri250 rpm -e --justdb bjfiltercups Once I did this and ran the PCLinuxOS Control Centre and Printer setup applet, the printer was autodetected and worked perfectly. |