Help needed - installing drivers for Canon MG5250 printer - dependency errors

[greybeard]

I've just installed Kubuntu 13.10 - really pleased with it generally. I am now trying to get my Canon MG5250 wireless printer working.

I downloaded the printer driver from the Canon Europe website but when I try to install the package I get a message saying that there are unsatisfied dependencies. Details posted below.

[greybeard]

I downloaded the Linux packages from the Canon Europe website and then followed instructions I found on askUbuntu.com:
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Driver instructions:

Download the driver files to Downloads folder:
Printer: http://support-my.canon-asia.com/con...100301702.html
Scanner: http://support-my.canon-asia.com/con...100303002.html

[I used files from the Canon Europe website]

Unpack the tar.gz files by right clicking on them and selecting 'unpack here'

Install the printer .deb packages by going into the folder and double clicking on the right .deb file for your system

32-bit:
cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_i386.deb
cnijfilter-mg5200series_3.40-1_i386.deb

...
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When try installing the second package the package installer shows that it cannot satisfy dependencies...

So I tried using a command line -

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_i386.deb cnijfilter-mg5200series_3.40-1_i386.deb

This gives the following output:

(Reading database ... 88268 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cnijfilter-common 3.40-1 (using cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cnijfilter-common ...
Preparing to replace cnijfilter-mg5200series 3.40-1 (using cnijfilter-mg5200series_3.40-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cnijfilter-mg5200series ...
Setting up cnijfilter-common (3.40-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cnijfilter-mg5200series:
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.3).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libtiff4.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libx11-6.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxext6.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxfixes3.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxi6.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxinerama1.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxml2 (>= 2.6.24).
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxrandr2.
cnijfilter-mg5200series depends on libxrender1.

dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-mg5200series (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
cnijfilter-mg5200series

How can I find out what packages are missing and install them ?

Thanks in advance.

[The Liquidator]

A number of the files referred to as missing dependencies appear to have been replaced by newer versions, which is what is causing the problem. The package installer expects certain files to be available, and if they are available in the repositories, it would automatically download and install them for you. Unfortunately a number of the files are rather old (the driver version is 2 years old) and were never available in the repos for 13.10 (although ironically they would probably install under 12.04).

As these drivers are proprietary the only people who could reconfigure them to install on later systems are Canon themselves, and I don't think their support of Linux is anything to write home about. So I personally would be surprised to see Canon provide a fix for this.

[greybeard]

OK, thanks for the advice - though not good news.