Installing drivers for printer

**loseby** · May 16th, 2012

I found out by right clicking you can extract the divers ( tar.gz file ) and have done that.I unzipped them onto the desktop and they are all in a folder called cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-rpm I opened this folder and dragged the install.sh into the terminal window as below and get this error.

william@Z77XUD5H:~$ '/home/william/Desktop/cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-rpm/install.sh'
An error occurred. A necessary package could not be found in the proper location.
william@Z77XUD5H:~$

what am I doing wrong ..... no bloody idea about terminal

**BaffledMollusc** · May 16th, 2012

Edit 2: You don't need to install a driver; it's already available. Click on System Settings (the spanner and gear icon in launcher), click on "Printing", then click on "Add". Add your printer. At the appropriate point select the driver under Canon->PIXMA MG 6100.

Edit: Are you sure you need to install these drivers? Most linux distributions ship with a *lot* of drivers by default. I'm having a hard time finding out for sure, but it looks like the MG6100 printer driver should come with Ubuntu 12.04 (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/959043). Anyway, if you definitely can't print, and *do* need to install the driver separately, keep reading:

Hi,

Your main problem is that you're trying to install an RPM package rather than a DEB package.

Very roughly speaking, there are two ways of packaging software in the linux world - RPMs, used by Red Hat, Fedora etc, and DEBs, used by Debian, Ubuntu etc.

This thread seems to lay out the steps you need: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1656821

One note: Where the above thread says "double click on the appropriate .deb file (386 or amd)" that's because you'll find four drivers in the "packages" directory:

cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_amd64.deb
cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_i386.deb
cnijfilter-mg6100series_3.40-1_amd64.deb
cnijfilter-mg6100series_3.40-1_i386.deb

If you installed a 64-bit version of ubuntu you'll need to double click on the two _amd64 packages; if you installed a 32-bit version of Ubuntu you'll need the two _i386 versions.

I haven't actually done the install, so I don't know if it works. Post again if you have problems!

**loseby** · May 17th, 2012

the thing is its wireless so I am pretty sure that is why it wont pick it up

I might try actually connecting the print via cable firstly and see what happens.

edit...ok, that worked roughly

Printer is a 6150 and has a bottom tray but that wont work....have to put paper in at the back whick defeats the purpose of the printer ie. lack of space and opening the back takes up room if doesnt have

I wont be doing that much printing so I guess I can just move it to the floor next the computer when I need to print

thanks you

**loseby** · May 17th, 2012

ok...have worked out what I will be doing for a temp solution

It wont be the perfect result but it will do. Have installed libre on a win7 pc and will use that. ie. will save files to a USB stick on 12.04 and plug that into the windows machine

thats easier then moving the printer

**loseby** · May 19th, 2012

ok.....have just managed a test page print

It uses the drivers for the 6100 but only rear paper feed

just put in 10.1.1.7 as the address ...... well thats what shows when you connect to the router