Problem installing Canon M4150 on Ubunut.

Hello everyone,
I have migrated to Ubunut lately so I am a very newbie and in the learning process. I was trying to setup my printer, Canon MF4150, on Ubuntu 11.04 but was unable to do that. I downloaded the drivers from the Canon website and wind up with 2 .deb files:

cndrvcups-common_2.20-1_i386.deb
cndrvcups-ufr2-us_2.20-1_i386.deb

I started by installing the first file but got the following:

Code:

Unpacking cndrvcups-common (from cndrvcups-common_2.20-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-common:
 cndrvcups-common depends on gs-esp; however:
  Package gs-esp is not installed.
dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-common (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cndrvcups-common

So what could be the problem is and how to solve it?

Thanks in advance

 

Run

Code:

apt-get install gs-esp

and try again.

 

Thanks for your reply. I ran the command and got the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install gs-esp
[sudo] password for : 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package gs-esp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gs-esp' has no installation candidate

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Try this instead:

Code:

sudo apt-get install ghostscript-x

 

I got the following message:

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cndrvcups-common : : gs-esp 

 

Can you run

Code:

sudo apt-get update

and try again?
If it doesn't work, can you post the full output of

Code:

sudo apt-get install ghostscript-x

?

 

Code:

ammar@ammars-notebook:~$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript-x
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ghostscript-x is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

 

The problem is that gs-esp was available as a package up to Ubuntu 10.10, but not for 11.04 (see http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gs-esp ). It has been replaced with ghostscript-x, but apparently your Canon packages insist on gs-esp being installed.

Can you try to install them like this?

Code:

dpkg -i --ignore-depends=gs-esp [I]package_name[/I]

 

I tried the above command but it didnt work...

 

Any error messages?

 

I too have the same issue. falko comments helped me to resolve my drivers installation issue.


sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=gs-esp cndrvcups-common_2.20-1_i386.deb


sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.20-1_i386.deb

 

Suggestion

Hi,

I just installed a driver for a Canon MF8300 series with a method like this. But I discovered a pretty serious problem afterwards...

apt-get is broken because it still thinks I need gs-esp, even though I installed ghostscript-x. Yes, the printer driver works. But apt-get doesn't want to do any upgrades or install other software.

To fix the problem, I followed the advice in the following thread:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2011/03/msg00048.html

The thread suggests a work-around using equivs to create a fake gs-esp package to fool apt-get.

I'm suggesting this solution if you face this problem. However, it took me a bit of trial and error before I got it fixed, so I can't guarantee that this work for certain...

Before you can install equivs with apt-get, you'll need to fix apt-get. (Note: this will probably ask you to remove the printer drivers you just installed, so you'll have to reinstall afterwards).

Code:

sudo apt-get -f install

Once, apt get is fixed, install equivs.

Code:

sudo apt-get install equivs

Then use equivs to create a fake gs-esp package. Use gedit (or substitute your favorite text editor) to create a file called fake-gs-esp.control

Code:

gedit fake-gs-esp.control

Inside this file place the following two lines, followed by enter:

Code:

Package: fake-gs-esp
Provides: gs-esp

Then, build the package and install the fake-gs-esp

Code:

equivs-build fake-gs-esp.control
sudo dpkg -i fake-gs-esp_1.0_all.deb

Afterwards, reinstall the printer driver using the methods described in this thread.