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I may end up falling back on my Brother printers which have been great but it takes the pair of them, "The twin Brothers", to do the job of one good all-in-one. I picked up a nice Canon MF742Cdw but so far can't get it installed for Mageia. Canon supplies a Linux driver in .rpm and .deb formats. I tried to install the driver using urpmi but that has given me 2 different errors. The second try gave me :

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[root@localhost RPM]# urpmi cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-5.80-1.05.x86_64.rpm
A requested package cannot be installed:
cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-5.80-1.05.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied libjpeg-turbo)
Continue install anyway? (Y/n)

I forget what the failure message was the first time but it was something else missing. I jyst tried that again and this time it was missing jbigkit-libs. (Trying again... now it's missing gtk3...

I'm wondering if there's hope for this or if it's going to need to be printing only in another OS?? I'm asking here since I've been very inactive in QA-Discuss.

Correction, the printer is a MF642Cdw, color laser AIO.

As some of the requirements are not available, you can only install via

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rpm -ivh --nodeps

This thread may help
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=4203

I'd use

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urpmi --allow-nodeps cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-5.80-1.05.x86_64.rpm


as rpm alone would not install available dependencies which are not yet installed.

My apologies for the long delay here. Work took me out of town for a while.

I installed the drivers but got nothing to print. The printer actually stirs as though it's going to print but then nothing. I've printed out test sheets from Win10 on this same laptop and from my Macbook Pro. That laptop also has a dual-boot of Fedora Asahi to be able to run Linux on Apple silicon. (This is after years and years of avoiding the apples but dead silence is something big for audio work).

My Mageia install of the printer drivers showed the same 3 unsatisfied dependencies as I showed above but it did bring up the Canon window to select my printer model and I expected it all to work. I don't give up easy but I also have lots of demands on my time. I'm going to try again but with a USB cable.

Hi. Another hint:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation ... r_Canon-fr

Apologies, haven't had time to translate it from french.

I have a very similar printer - Canon MF632Cdw, and just went through the same issues today. I went to the Canon site and downloaded various versions of the driver. I could install the RPM package, but could never get the install script to run. Manually configuring the printer the closest I ever got to it working was the printer printing completely blank pages when trying to print a test page.

What worked for me was to uninstall the Canon driver completely, and instead select "Generic" and then "IPP Everywhere Printer"

My device URI is ipp://192.168.1.50:631/ipp

My printer is assigned a static IP. There is probably a version of the URI that works with a DNS name lookup