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I don't have much experience with Terminal. I'm trying to install printer drivers for a Canon MX494. I've downloaded (multiple copies lol) of the drivers (.deb and .rpm) and Terminal can't find them. Where should I be putting them? I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

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    If you lack experience with the terminal, you can just double click the .deb file to install it.
    – Mark Kirby
    Apr 30, 2016 at 16:30

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You will probably find them in your ~/Downloads directory. When you open a terminal you usually start in your user's home directory, so typing

ls

Will show you what's in there. If you see Downloads (or, if your locale is not English, some equivalent in your language) type

cd Downloads

Or if you don't see it

cd ~/Downloads

Then run ls again and hopefully there are your drivers. For Ubuntu you want .deb not .rpm packages. To install a .deb file (replace name-of-file with the name of the file!)

sudo dpkg -i name-of-file.deb

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