Canon PIXMA MP190 Driver?

[coldReactive]

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit.

For 32 & 64 bit users: Use Ubuntu MP180 driver, but scanning won't work, (wbee are you using 32 or 64 bit? How did you make the scanner work?) You can also download driver (MP 190) from Canon Website, I assume this will make print and scan work, but it's only for 32 bit. What's left for us 64 bit users is to find a useful driver and make scanning work. The solution is to compile from source (as lykwydchykyn suggested). Will this effort really make printing and scanning work for 64 bit? I'm going to try this path.

Do this (tested for karmic only, doesn't work on Hardy):

0. TURN OFF THE PIXMA MP190 (Mandatory)

1. Remove the printer you currently have in the printers that uses the MP180 driver.

2. Install this: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/po...ntu3.1_all.deb

3. Download the canon-europe i386 drivers from: http://software.canon-europe.com/sof...326.asp?model=

4. Force architecture on all four DEBs using the following command:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture <deb_package>

5. Turn on the printer/scanner. Ubuntu will auto-detect your printer as MP190-series.

[coldReactive]

I guess this is just a shot in the dark?

[chriskin]

why open it in windows?
you can open your tar archive inside linux
it is just that the windows app cannot open tars, most probably

[chriskin]

also, having a printer of the same company, when i tried to add it at system/administration/printing it downloaded all the drivers automatically and it works just fine (worked at least, i no longer use it in favor of my new HP printer )

have you tried that before going to a site?

if you do need a driver from a site, it would better to get a .deb if it available, rpm packages can be installed on debian based systems like ubuntu, but they need extra work, while debs just need two clicks

[coldReactive]

There are no debs for it available.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&ei=yVAV...fp=Li-R6mbKWrc

[chriskin]

you didn't answer if you managed to open the archive in ubuntu, or if you did what i said with the driver, those where the important part of my messages