Just bought a second hand HP Pentium 4 and installed Ubuntu from a thumb drive. Went very smoothly and I am very pleased so far. I opted to wipe out XP as I do not want to give any more money to Bill Gates . I have a second XP computer so I do have a way out if everything goes pear shaped. The one obstacle I have encountered so far is in finding a driver for my Canon MP145 printer/scanner. I have found a lot of conflicting info on how to do that, some with dead links, etc. Someone said that the MP150 driver pre-installed with Ubuntu would work, but I have not found that to be true. The other option sounds somewhat complicated, involving downloading some files from Canon, un-tarring and converting to .deb files, renaming, and then, because a dependency is missing you must find another Canon file and do the same. As a newbie to Linux/Ubuntu it all sounds rather daunting, although I imagine I will have to familiarize myself with that process soon. My purpose in writing is to see if anyone might have the correct driver files already in the right format, or point me to a resource where that might be available? Thanks in advance for any help.

Easiest for me is to tell you to switch to SuSE (at least then the files would be installable). Failing to convince you of that I can't provide prebuilt files for you for two reasons. Number one is that I doubt you have 64bit installed (you're on a P4) and number two I couldn't guarantee that you installing a package built on an Ubuntu that may not be the same version. However, I've included a line of code you can paste into your terminal and build/install it yourself (highlight it and make sure you get all the way over to *mp140*.deb. Number three there are prebuilt packages. Download the following four.

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDgzNDAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDg0NzAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDgzNzAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDg0ODAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

Those are all English packages from the nearest server to you (Hong Kong). Install those marked "Common" first and then the other two. Also apparently you need to have either mp140 or mp150 chosen as the driver.....

I installed the Cannon MP258 scanner/printer about 9 months ago, it was very easy to do and I am quite pleased with it.

I got everything I needed from the Cannon global site. Here is for yours.

http://support-th.canon-asia.com/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP145&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux

You just need to download and install both the debian package and common package for both the scanner and the printer. I really don't remember what order I did it, but I think the printer first.

It appears that you need for the 140 series, not the 150, which is probably why it didn't work.

Hi higgy_88 and dave_Boo--Thanks very much to both of you. I will explore both those options and report back!

Easiest for me is to tell you to switch to SuSE (at least then the files would be installable). Failing to convince you of that I can't provide prebuilt files for you for two reasons. Number one is that I doubt you have 64bit installed (you're on a P4) and number two I couldn't guarantee that you installing a package built on an Ubuntu that may not be the same version. However, I've included a line of code you can paste into your terminal and build/install it yourself (highlight it and make sure you get all the way over to *mp140*.deb. Number three there are prebuilt packages. Download the following four.

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDgzNDAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDg0NzAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDgzNzAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss.com/gdl/WWUFORedirectTarget.do?id=MDEwMDAwMDg0ODAx&cmp=ACB〈=EN

Those are all English packages from the nearest server to you (Hong Kong). Install those marked "Common" first and then the other two. Also apparently you need to have either mp140 or mp150 chosen as the driver.....

Hello,

I downloaded those files to a USB stick (thanks!), and then used the Home Folder to double click to install with the Package Installer. The common files worked fine, but when I do that with the deb ones I get a "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: cnijfilter common (>=2.80). Any ideas? I will keep exploring!

Easiest for me is to tell you to switch to SuSE (at least then the files would be installable). Failing to convince you of that I can't provide prebuilt files for you for two reasons. Number one is that I doubt you have 64bit installed (you're on a P4) and number two I couldn't guarantee that you installing a package built on an Ubuntu that may not be the same version. However, I've included a line of code you can paste into your terminal and build/install it yourself (highlight it and make sure you get all the way over to *mp140*.deb. Number three there are prebuilt packages. Download the following four.

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

Those are all English packages from the nearest server to you (Hong Kong). Install those marked "Common" first and then the other two. Also apparently you need to have either mp140 or mp150 chosen as the driver.....

Hello,

I downloaded those files to a USB stick (thanks!), and then used the Home Folder to double click to install with the Package Installer. The common files worked fine, but when I do that with the deb ones I get a "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: cnijfilter common (>=2.80). Any ideas? I will keep exploring!

Guess you have already read this one? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1401665

Easiest for me is to tell you to switch to SuSE (at least then the files would be installable). Failing to convince you of that I can't provide prebuilt files for you for two reasons. Number one is that I doubt you have 64bit installed (you're on a P4) and number two I couldn't guarantee that you installing a package built on an Ubuntu that may not be the same version. However, I've included a line of code you can paste into your terminal and build/install it yourself (highlight it and make sure you get all the way over to *mp140*.deb. Number three there are prebuilt packages. Download the following four.

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

http://pdisp01.c-wss...cmp=ACB〈=EN

Those are all English packages from the nearest server to you (Hong Kong). Install those marked "Common" first and then the other two. Also apparently you need to have either mp140 or mp150 chosen as the driver.....

Hello,

I downloaded those files to a USB stick (thanks!), and then used the Home Folder to double click to install with the Package Installer. The common files worked fine, but when I do that with the deb ones I get a "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: cnijfilter common (>=2.80). Any ideas? I will keep exploring!

Guess you have already read this one? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1401665

I just looked at that and it is beyond my ability level at the moment. I might just get a printer that is already included in the driver list!

I had more time to devote to this today, and discovered that the pre-installed Canon MP150 driver does indeed work with the MP145! I think the problem I had first go round was that I didn't have the printer properly installed when I was fiddling with the driver selection. This time when I went to the Printer Box I saw that Ubuntu listed my MP145 running via USB port, and it was a very simple matter to attach the MP150 driver to it. Test page printed perfectly, and I was able to use the simple scan feature to see that the scanner worked. So far so good! Many thanks to everyone here for pitching in. Next project is to install GIMPSHOP! Getting close to the point where I can move my important files over to this machine for use as a primary, and relegate the Windows as a spare computer, perhaps with dual boot capabilities for emergencies. Loving Linux so far!