Canon printer/scanner driver installation problem Fedora 18 Beta

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 08:54 -0500, julechner at aol.com wrote:
> Hi,
> Fedora 18 Beta installation on a computer with limited resources
> (Tornado Geforce2 MX/MX 400 grafics). Therefore installation with LXDE
> desktop, i386.
> I try now to install a Canon Pixma MP 540 printer-scanner:
> Software 
> Dateiversion: 3.0 
> Dateigröße: 12.1 MB 
> Dateiname: MP540_RPM_drivers.tar
> 
> 
> Result:
> [root at localhost Downloads]# sudo rpm -U
> scangearmp-common-1.20-1.i386.rpm
> Fehler: Fehlgeschlagende Abhängigkeiten:
>     libpng12.so.0 wird benötigt von scangearmp-common-1.20-1.i386
> [root at localhost Downloads]# sudo rpm -U
> cnijfilter-mp540series-3.00-1.i386.rpm
> Fehler: Fehlgeschlagende Abhängigkeiten:
>     libpng12.so.0 wird benötigt von cnijfilter-mp540series-3.00-1.i386
>     libtiff.so.3 wird benötigt von cnijfilter-mp540series-3.00-1.i386
> [root at localhost Downloads]# 
> 
> 
> 
> These old libraries (libpng12.so.0 and  libtiff.so.3)  -as I can see-
> have been in previous Fedora packages. I think the Canon driver
> doesn't want the corresponding libraries of Fedora 18 Beta.
> Is there any idea for a work around? The commercial printer driver
> "turboprint" works for this Canon printer in Fedora 18 Beta. But I
> would like to install this Canon driver for printer and scanner.
> Warm regards
> Joerg Lechner
> 
Try installing the packages with yum, not rpm. If a compat package that
provides the required deps is available in the official repo,s that will
find it.
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