Installing Canon proprietry driver for Pixma MG5300 series on openSUSE 13.2

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#1

I’ve been running openSUSE 13.2 for about a month or two now and I decided to finally attempt to get our Canon Pixma MG5300 series multifunction to work from my Linux box. I found proprietry Linux drivers on Canons support web site, but while trying to install them through the build in openSUSE tools (not sure which one, the one that is used in a stock install to process rpm files when I click on them in Dolphin) or through the Canon install script, I get dependency errors.

Both methods fail on libtiff.so.3()(64bit). The only libtiff I seem to be able to find through YaST is libtiff.so.5. I’m not a complete n00b but my Linux experience is mostly as a user, not as an admin. Any ideas on how I could either trick rpm into accepting my installed libtiff or on how to get my hands on libtiff.so.3 to satisfy the dependency?

#2

svenbovin wrote on 01/02/2015 01:46 PM:
> Any ideas
> on how I could either trick rpm into accepting my installed libtiff or
> on how to get my hands on libtiff.so.3 to satisfy the dependency?

You could try and create a softlink named libtiff.so.3 pointing to the more recent file. Sometimes this does the job.

Uwe

#3

Or search on
http://software.opensuse.org/132/

and install the package from Repo:Graphics:
32 bit: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_13.2/i586/libtiff3-3.9.5-2.2.i586.rpm
64 bit: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_13.2/x86_64/libtiff3-3.9.5-2.2.x86_64.rpm

#4

Thanks, that did the trick. I’ve now bookmarked the search page…

Is it a good idea to leave Repo:Graphics defined as a repository in Yast or should I remove it after installation?