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beretta

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 133

Canon ip4500 drivers

I have a nice Canon iP4500 that I'm now trying to get working in Arch.  Here's what I've done:

Downloaded the two files here from http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028476.asp

cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm
cnijfilter-ip4500series-2.80-1.i386.rpm

I then modified the PKGBUILD from pixmaip4200 in AUR:  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6528
I've listed the PKGBUILD below.

Going into http://localhost:631/admin, I can get cups to see the printer is there and install the driver from the package I made, but it won't send any jobs to it.  I get the error: "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij failed"

Running commands from a terminal as per the instructions available at the canon website, I get these kinds of messages:

 $ cngpijmonip4500 IP4500
cngpijmonip4500: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Which tells me it might be looking for 32-bit libraries.

Has anyone else gotten a Canon printer working on x86_64? 

Here's the PKGBUILD

# Contributor: beretta
pkgname=pixmaip4500
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A wrapper for the Canon drivers for the Pixma iP4500 printer"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://software.canon-europe.com/"
license='unknown'
depends=('rpmextract' 'libxml2')
source=(cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm cnijfilter-ip4500series-2.80-1.i386.rpm)
md5sums=('a6b97bf57bd823f21118c0ee65f336d6' '0c1f319b5f4c9663738e2a082651b79c')
build() {
    rpmextract.sh cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm
    rpmextract.sh cnijfilter-ip4500series-2.80-1.i386.rpm
    mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/lib
    cp -a usr/lib/* $startdir/pkg/usr/lib
    mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share
    cp -a usr/share/* $startdir/pkg/usr/share
    mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
    cp -a usr/local/bin/* $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
    cp -a usr/local/share/* $startdir/pkg/usr/share
    echo -e '[Desktop Entry]\nVersion=2.80\nType=Application\nName=Canon iP4500 Status Monitor\nGenericName=Canon iP4500 Status Monitor\nComment=View device status and ink levels.\nExec=/usr/bin/cngpijmon\nIcon=print-manager\nTerminal=false\nCategories=Application;Utility;\nStartupNotify=false\n' > ip4500.desktop
    mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications
    cp -a ip4500.desktop $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications
}

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Re: Canon ip4500 drivers

Did you try installing 32 bit compatibility libraries? Dunno if that includes GTK, but that's what you seem to be needing here .

And that's the pain of binary drivers, but that's not your fault of course . A pity Canon still sticks to them.

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beretta

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 133

Re: Canon ip4500 drivers

I've tried that-- installed lib32-gtk2 and all its dependencies, but it still has the same problem.  Running pstocanonij directly still says the "wrong ELF class" error.  I don't see a lib32-libelf anywhere in db, so I'm not sure what to do next.

beretta

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 133

Re: Canon ip4500 drivers

If anyone else has this printer and is searching for help on it, I was finally able to get it to work using the Gutenprint drivers-- a good description of how to do that is on the wiki for the ip4300 printer:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Canon_iP4300