A doubt on ubuntu

[Bharath1910]

I have canon pixma E560 printer.. I have it's CD also I wanted to know will it work on linux??
or ubuntu will search for drivers automatically??

 

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Bharath1910 said:

ubuntu will search for drivers automatically

Typically, but if it's a really obscure printer, it may try to install the closest known driver and go from there,

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Bharath1910 said:

canon pixma E560

If you can believ this site, here are the drivers

 

https://downloadubuntusoftware.info/canon-pixma-e560-drivers-download/

 

[mahyar]

yep it seems that it has a driver fo ubuntu

[Applefreak]

CANON is one of those companies that stopped supporting windows 64 bit systems but kept making solid drivers for unix and linux early on. Most CANON printers work amazingly well. I have an old CANON and a Brother B/W laser printer that are connected to a Ubuntu 19.04 machine because there are no current drivers for windows available anymore. For older stuff, Linux is a really good option. In your case, there are official drivers from CANON, so you should be good to go. Happy printing.

[Bharath1910]

32 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

CANON is one of those companies that stopped supporting windows 64 bit systems but kept making solid drivers for unix and linux early on. Most CANON printers work amazingly well. I have an old CANON and a Brother B/W laser printer that are connected to a Ubuntu 19.04 machine because there are no current drivers for windows available anymore. For older stuff, Linux is a really good option. In your case, there are official drivers from CANON, so you should be good to go. Happy printing.

Thank you 
but can you give driver's link and tell me how to install??
because I'm new to ubuntu..

[Bharath1910]

2 minutes ago, Bharath1910 said:

Thank you 
but can you give driver's link and tell me how to install??
because I'm new to ubuntu..

I got the file but it is in .tar.gz form
how do I install the driver from that .tar.gz file??

 

[Bharath1910]

I have recently installed ubuntu in my PC and I'm new to linux..
I wanted a driver for my canon E560 Printer and I got a files like in the picture....
I wanted that IJ driver..which is available in source file, rpm pakagearchive, and debian packagearchive
what should I download and how to get it running pls help..

[Electronics Wizardy]

get the debian package. Then it will let you install with the ubuntu software installer.

[Bharath1910]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

get the debian package. Then it will let you install with the ubuntu software installer.

oh ok.. Thank you

 

[Bharath1910]

when I install the debian pakage archive file it showing like this....

 

[Bharath1910]

It is in .tar.gz extension

[Bharath1910]

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, Bharath1910 said:

It is in .tar.gz extension

then unzip the file, and run the install.sh file in the terminal.

[Bharath1910]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

then unzip the file, and run the install.sh file in the terminal.

but How to....I'm very new to linux

 

[Bharath1910]

Please can you give step by step explanation..?

[Electronics Wizardy]

21 minutes ago, Bharath1910 said:

but How to....I'm very new to linux

 

open a terminal

 

cd ~/Downloads

 

This moves you to the locations of your downloads

 

tar -xf FILENAME

 

this will extract the files from the tarball(name for compression)

 

cd NEWFOLDER

 

this chnages your directory to the location that you extracted

 

sudo ./installer.

 

This runs the installer in the tarball.

[Bharath1910]

I ran the command and this happend...

[Bharath1910]

Where the file is located??
 

 

 

 

[Bharath1910]

I can't see the file

 

[Bharath1910]

I'm new to linux and I had installed a driver for my printer...
From where can I access this file??

[mahyar]

type sudo apt install libusb-0.1-4

then it should work

[Bharath1910]

13 minutes ago, mahyar said:

type sudo apt install libusb-0.1-4

then it should work

I installed it 

now what to do??

 

[mahyar]

install the driver

[Bharath1910]

I install the driver again..but how can I access it??