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desperately need help getting a canon iP4850 printer working with ubuntu 10.10

Asked by Ian Brownlie

 My old canon printer (mp630) died after a hard life, now I have a Canon iP4850 and I just can't get it working. I don't know how to install tar.gz files, I have never in 4 years of ubuntu managed to do it. All I get is error messages. So, if anybody knows of a deb package, or any method of getting it working it would be very much appreciated. Thank Ian.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

cd; wget http://files.canon-europe.com/files/soft40246/software/ip4800_redhat_debian_guide.tar; tar xvf ./ip4800_redhat_debian_guide.tar; tar zxvf ./cnijfilter-ip4800series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz; cd cnijfilter-ip4800series-3.40-1-deb/; sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb

Will install the driver

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Ian Brownlie (ibrownlie) said : 		#2

Nope, Just the usual error message, "no such file or directory" Thanks anyway ian

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Ian Brownlie (ibrownlie) said : 		#3

Hang on there, I did a reboot abd now it seems to have installed. I'll give it a try and if it doesn't work I'll get back to you. Thanks heaps actionparsnip, you're a star. Thanks again Ian.
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