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    Question How to compile a driver?

    I'm running Ubuntu on my old Powermac, and I haven't been able to find a PPC driver for my Canon Pixma iP1800 printer, only i386 drivers.

    I've found a website that has the source in an .src.rpm file. I've never compiled anything before. How can I compile this to run on my PPC computer?

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    Re: How to compile a driver?

    An rpm package is a redhat linux package, but never fear someone wrote a program called "alien" and that is what you need to use to convert the rpm to a debian package , its in the repositories.

    To install it paste this in a terminal

    sudo apt-get install alien


    hope you get it going

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    Re: How to compile a driver?

    Quote Originally Posted by spookthehamster View Post
    I'm running Ubuntu on my old Powermac, and I haven't been able to find a PPC driver for my Canon Pixma iP1800 printer, only i386 drivers.

    I've found a website that has the source in an .src.rpm file. I've never compiled anything before. How can I compile this to run on my PPC computer?
    You are gonna definataley need "buid-essiantals" and with that, you can compile files, there's a good link > http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

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