Canon MP620 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Earlier this year I got a cheap Canon MP620 all-in-one printer, which works great with Windows and works fine for Ubuntu. Canon released drivers as .deb files for the MP610 which work with cups. I remember sweating it out a bit because the printer does not work unless you track down a few pieces that aren’t in the Ubuntu repositories. Next time, I’ll check LinuxPrinting.org before buying a printer.
Anyway, I installed Karmic from scratch and found that I couldn’t install the Canon drivers because they want libcupsys2. Ubuntu renamed this package. I tried a few tricks to work around this, but the one works is to install the libcupsys2 dummy package from Jaunty. You can get it here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/all/libcupsys2/download.
So, the new procedure is get the libcupsys2 .deb file and install it first. Then follow the instructions for Januty, such as Luca Gibelli’s Canon PIXMA MP620 Linux printing and scanning via wireless network on Ubuntu post from last April.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
That’s very useful, thanks. Solved my problem with the Canon PIXMA MP620
November 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thanks for this entry.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:40 pm
totally awesome. i’ve been pulling my hair all night about this.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 am
Thanks very much for your help. I now have my Canon PIXMA MP620 working with Karmic. Followed Luca’s instructions with Jaunty – which are very good – and all worked fine but then lots of frustration until I found your site. Cheers!
November 30th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Thanks a lot. Same mistake and now fixed.
December 10th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
man you saved my life……….
thanx a lot dude….
January 18th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Leon,
Thanks, I’ve been struggling to get my MP620 going for weeks. This worked first time
Cheers
Dave