How to install an rpm.tar.gz printer driver?

[Joseph Sinclair]

Looks like packages has the rpm's for the actual driver; pick the 2 i386 versions or the 2 x86_64 versions (if your system is 64-bit), and try installing them.
Unless you need Japanese, Chinese, or French support resources doesn't look useful, and I'd bet the install script checks for the NZ version of the printer then just installs the RPM's.

make sure to rpm --install *both* rpm's for your architecture; it looks like they're a split of shared libraries and actual driver code.


On 08/29/2012 01:42 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> 
> Still need guidance:
> 
> ---------------
>>> joe wrote (in part):
>>> Still trying to find how to get our Canon mx439 wireless printer
>>> to work from our Linux system ... found driver but how to install?
> 
> ---------------
> Joseph Sinclair wrote (in part):
>> gunzip cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1-rpm.tar.gz
>> tar xf cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1-rpm.tar
>> rpm --install <whatever the .rpm file(s) might be in the tarball
> 
> 
> After gunzip and tar xf ... a directory named:
> cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1-rpm
> included the contents listed below.
> 
> So how should I proceed?
> Should I use 'install.sh' ...  if so, how?
> Or should I use 'rpm --install <one of the rpms -- which one?>
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 2 joe  4096 Dec 19  2011 packages
> drwxr-xr-x 2 joe  4096 Dec 19  2011 resources
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 joe 52202 Dec 19  2011 install.sh
> 
> packages:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe  125911 Dec 19  2011 cnijfilter-common-3.70-1.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe 1743678 Dec 19  2011 cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe 1806283 Dec 19  2011
> cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe  140545 Dec 19  2011 cnijfilter-common-3.70-1.x86_64.rpm
> 
> resources:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe joe 3914 Dec 19  2011 printer_zh_utf8.lc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe joe 5294 Dec 19  2011 printer_ja_utf8.lc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joe joe 4687 Dec 19  2011 printer_fr_utf8.lc
> 
> install.sh = 1906 lines of code, beginning with this:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> ##########################################
> ##
> ##  Canon Inkjet Printer Driver for Linux
> ##  Copyright CANON INC. 2001-2012
> ##  All Rights Reserved.
> 
> 1900 lines of code follow
> 
> 
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