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I'm trying to install my Canon iP7250 printer on a fresh install of 13:10 64bit. Last time I installed it successfully via http://handytutorial.com/install-canon-printer-driver-for-ubuntu-13-04-12-10-12-04 which entailed adding a repository via the terminal and then updating it. I then opened Synaptic and searched for my printer model and Synaptic then installed everything.

This time round I added the repositories but the update failed with the following error:

Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-gru...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-gru...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

An internet search failed to find another way of installing this printer so I'm stuck. My laptop also runs 64 bit 13:10 and the printer works, as I installed it months ago. Is there any way I can take something off that to use on this new machine?

Thank you all in advance

P.S. I have just found and downloaded the official Canon driver from the Canon website and extracted it, but I don't know how to install it.

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  • Please see if this helps, http://askubuntu.com/questions/174474/installing-canon-lbp6000-in-ubuntu-12-04. To install the official drivers from Canon, you need to extract the tar files and run the scripts contained therein. – Masroor Oct 26 '13 at 17:39
  • Thanks for the reply, but I'm not very technical. Is there an easier way? – Chris Burmajster Oct 26 '13 at 17:50
  • You can at least try installing the Canon official drivers and see if they work. They are fairly easy to install. – Masroor Oct 27 '13 at 00:06
  • Also, you can take a look at this, http://askubuntu.com/questions/233416/can-someone-help-me-with-the-canon-mp250-printer-driver – Masroor Oct 27 '13 at 02:02
  • Thanks for the further information. I tried double clicking on install.sh and all it did was open a text file, so I'm none the wiser! In the Windoze world I could simply double click the .exe and it would install, but Ubuntu appears to be a bit more complicated to beginners like me. – Chris Burmajster Oct 28 '13 at 18:41
  • Press Ctrl-Alt-t, you get a terminal. Use cd to move to the directory where install.sh is, type . ./install.sh and press Enter. That will execute this file. I will also face the same kind of problem if you ask me to sit at some Windows machine. – Masroor Oct 29 '13 at 00:03
  • Thanks MMA for your help - much appreciated. Sorry to be thick, but the Canon driver is in a folder on the desktop which I have already extracted. I tried typing cd desktop in the terminal and it says "no such file or directory". What am I doing wrong, please? – Chris Burmajster Oct 29 '13 at 18:44
  • The command will be cd Desktop/, please note the uppercase D. Cases are important in Linux. – Masroor Oct 30 '13 at 00:12
  • Thanks MMA. I successfully got to the desktop but I presume that, because the install.sh file is inside a folder called cnijfilter-ip7200series-3.80-1-deb, I need to get inside that folder. I tried using ./install.sh and adding the name of the file and that didn't work. Then I tried cd nameoffile/ and that didn't work either, so I'm still stuck. Sorry to be such a pain! I notice that the last entry on the Handy Tutorial website was in August, so I wonder if the owner of the site will be updating it. – Chris Burmajster Nov 02 '13 at 12:33
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    A search on Duck Duck Go brought me to https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/226171 where I managed to add another repository and managed to install the printer driver that way. Thank you to all of you for your help. – Chris Burmajster Nov 02 '13 at 15:09
  • Looks like an excellent resource. Will resort to this one should at some point I fail to coax my present driver installation to work. Till that time, do not want to perturb my working system. Though at this moment, I need to execute a home made script before a print. – Masroor Nov 02 '13 at 16:15

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A search on Duck Duck Go brought me to http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/226171 where I managed to add another repository and managed to install the printer driver that way.

The repository is https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/ubuntu/canon-trunk

Add the repository using these commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk
sudo apt-get update
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