I found the solution to installing the canon driver for this printer at Ubuntu forums (
Edgar Ilaga)-- what's needed is to change the .deb package (control file) so that the installation doesn't hang looking for libcupsys2 which is not installed, but uses libcups2 as it should.
- Download the Debian drivers !! no longer available here >> software.canon-europe.com/
- extract
- now you see two new folders - common and DEBIAN. ...then to change the file control in DEBIAN to reflect libcups2...
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcupsys2 (>= 1.2.1), libpopt0 (>= 1.7)
- and change libcupsys2 to libcups2. Save the file.
- Now, copy the entire DEBIAN folder into common. then repackage these into a .deb archive...
install that .deb file
Repeat for cnijfilter-ip1900series_3.00-1_i386.deb
edit the control file as before (change libcupsys2 to libcups2)
copy the DEBIAN folder into common, then repackage with...
install that one too, and then use cups to add the printer: http://localhost:631 (plugged in)
set root ownership of the filter
run a test page!!!