Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Canon MP560 Printer Troubles

So I installed Linux Mint 12 and my printer wouldn't work. I went back and installed Ubuntu 11.04 and my printer which used to work now no longer does. I have checked out the bug below and it seems to be mine (maybe)

here is a ppa I installed

https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=oneiric

here is the instructions I used to try and get the install script to work


and


Also tried this solution of changing permissions

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/436544

sudo
sudo chown -hR root /usr/lib/cups/filter
sudo chown -hR root /usr/lib/cups/backend
sudo chgrp -hR root /usr/lib/cups/filter
sudo chgrp -hR root /usr/lib/cups/backend
/etc/init.d/cups restart

still no luck

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