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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2If you lack experience with the terminal, you can just double click the .deb file to install it.– Mark KirbyApr 30, 2016 at 16:30
1 Answer
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