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Package Details: capt-src 2.71-7

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Git Clone URL:	https://aur.archlinux.org/capt-src.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base:	capt-src
Description:	Canon CAPT Printer Driver for Linux. Compiled from source code.
Upstream URL:	http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/
Keywords:	canon capt printer
Licenses:	custom
Conflicts:	cndrvcups-common-lb, cndrvcups-lb
Submitter:	reztho
Maintainer:	mistersmee
Last Packager:	mistersmee
Votes:	79
Popularity:	0.71
First Submitted:	2010-08-29 20:28 (UTC)
Last Updated:	2025-05-28 09:30 (UTC)

Dependencies (13)

atk (at-spi2-core-git^AUR, at-spi2-core)
cups (cups-git^AUR, cups-gssapi^AUR)
ghostscript
glib2 (glib2-git^AUR, glib2-selinux^AUR, glib2-patched-thumbnailer^AUR)
gtk2 (gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view^AUR)
lib32-gcc-libs (lib32-gcc-libs-git^AUR, lib32-gccrs-libs-git^AUR, lib32-gcc-libs-snapshot^AUR)
lib32-glibc (lib32-glibc-git^AUR, lib32-glibc-linux4^AUR, lib32-glibc-eac^AUR)
lib32-libcups
lib32-libxml2-legacy^AUR
lib32-popt
libglade^AUR
libxml2 (libxml2-git^AUR, libxml2-2.9^AUR)
popt (popt-git^AUR)

Required by (0)

Sources (2)

Pinned Comments

reztho commented on 2020-06-11 14:55 (UTC) (edited on 2020-06-11 18:47 (UTC) by reztho)

Do not expect this driver to work in the near future if Canon doesn't release a new version soon. This driver is from 2017 and the GCC environment started deprecating a lot of stuff used by this driver. Please, ask for better Linux support to Canon.

Do not flag this package out of date if there's no new version available. That's bad community behavior. A comment telling about the issue is enough.

If your machine uses the x86_64 arch, the multilib pacman repo will be needed for this driver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#multilib

For an alternative 100% open source driver although not official by Canon, go to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/captdriver-git/

buovjaga commented on 2020-01-09 10:33 (UTC)

Re: driver deprecation - the CUPS creator opened this issue to discuss how to handle old devices: https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271

From one of his comments: "Before we drop PPDs, we will be working with developers to create those printer applications (particularly Gutenprint), and will likely end up creating our own printer application (based on the existing ippserver sample code) to support existing PostScript and CUPS raster drivers. So the goal is definitely not to leave people SOL, but rather to plan for a future where we aren't limited by the capabilities of the past."

reztho commented on 2019-10-06 11:44 (UTC)

Now you'll see this warning message: lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.

Not sure what this will mean for the future with this driver.

Latest Comments

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reztho commented on 2018-09-08 20:37 (UTC)

bluetux, hope you saw the pinned comments. Good luck with that. Keep the installation files somewhere in case you want to uninstall the driver someday. You've lost the whole point of using a package by doing a manual installation in your system: now you have the driver files scattered around your system without the package manager knowing about them.

Cray2TheZ, pacman -S base-devel. This pacman group is a must to have in any system, specially if you're looking to compile stuff like this package. It's a pity that group is not enforced anymore to be installed in the installation guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Install_the_base_packages, as you can see it's mentioned there.

Cray2TheZ commented on 2018-09-08 19:26 (UTC) (edited on 2018-09-08 19:30 (UTC) by Cray2TheZ)

The package is not compiling in Arch, even after installing automake and autoconf. I get a this error:

checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: in `/home/myusername/capt-src/src/cndrvcups-common3.21/buftool': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Please help! Thanks!

bluetux commented on 2018-09-06 11:34 (UTC)

Installing this driver resolve the problem:

Canon CAPT Drivers for Solus and others

https://github.com/gkr09/Canon-CAPT/archive/master.zip https://github.com/gkr09/Canon-CAPT/blob/master/README.md

And everything goes like a charm in LTS Manjaro (august 2018) Thanks to Gopikrishnan R (github.com/gkr09) !

bloodflash commented on 2018-09-05 11:04 (UTC)

"No specified printer" captstatusui bad compiled. In the .deb package there is a compiled worker. replaced original captstatusui by compiled .deb package. PS sorry for bad english

vacl1100 commented on 2018-02-10 17:40 (UTC) (edited on 2018-02-10 17:40 (UTC) by vacl1100)

I have two archlinux computers with these driver (connected to Canon LBP-1200 and LBP-3000 printers), both still working. But LBP-3000 for some reason seems as /dev/usb/lp2

Auswaschbar commented on 2017-10-31 14:05 (UTC)

For some reason, this stopped working somewhere in the last few months. Happened for anyone else? Or did my printer just finally die?

bluetux commented on 2017-09-10 10:39 (UTC) (edited on 2017-09-10 10:42 (UTC) by bluetux)

And everything goes like a charm with cndrvcups-capt_2.71-1_amd64.deb and cndrvcups-common_3.21-1_amd64.deb in Ubuntu 16.04 based distros.

bluetux commented on 2017-09-09 08:34 (UTC)

Has anyone managed to compile from source drivers for Canon LBP (2900, ...)? Because I do not succeed under Arch. And because the LBP2900 printer has become useless in Arch, I'm thinking of going back to a Ubuntu-based distribution (KDE Neon or Lubuntu). In Ubuntu everything goes right with cndrvcups-capt_2.70-1_amd64.deb and cndrvcups-common_3.20-1_amd64.deb. At least does anyone have the download link for the (previous) AUR capt-src 2.70 package and source ?