cattykaytee
May 6th, 2009, 04:00 AM
Hi, I'm a newbie to the Linux OS. Sorry if this is long but I'd like to fully explain myself.
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope x86_64 with an AMD 64 processor.
I'm currently going through what some many others are going through and have been through: the nightmare of Canon's lack of drivers for the Linux OS.
I have a Canon Pixma iP1800 printer and a Canoscan 8000F flatbed scanner.
For the flatbed scanner I tried looking for ANY drivers relating to linux, and failed.
For the printer I found a linux .rpm file on canon's Europe website, downloaded it, attempted to convert it to a .deb file with alien, and that didn't work.
I also found .deb files for it on links I found in other threads that also had the same printer problem(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=445874). They seemed to have been able to download it successfully but upon opening the package I keep on getting "Error: Wrong Architecture 'i386'". After trying to force the architecture (sudodpkg --force-architecture -i ... .deb) it said I was missing dependecies. So I went to download those and two of them didn't go through because Jaunty has a newer version of the files out.
I'm currently feeling at a total loss. Is there some way (or can someone help me) with installing my Canon printer and scanner onto Ubuntu?
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope x86_64 with an AMD 64 processor.
I'm currently going through what some many others are going through and have been through: the nightmare of Canon's lack of drivers for the Linux OS.
I have a Canon Pixma iP1800 printer and a Canoscan 8000F flatbed scanner.
For the flatbed scanner I tried looking for ANY drivers relating to linux, and failed.
For the printer I found a linux .rpm file on canon's Europe website, downloaded it, attempted to convert it to a .deb file with alien, and that didn't work.
I also found .deb files for it on links I found in other threads that also had the same printer problem(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=445874). They seemed to have been able to download it successfully but upon opening the package I keep on getting "Error: Wrong Architecture 'i386'". After trying to force the architecture (sudodpkg --force-architecture -i ... .deb) it said I was missing dependecies. So I went to download those and two of them didn't go through because Jaunty has a newer version of the files out.
I'm currently feeling at a total loss. Is there some way (or can someone help me) with installing my Canon printer and scanner onto Ubuntu?