List of Things to be Installed Immediately After Getting Linux Work in My Laptop

I’ve installed Fedora 11 i386 on my Lenovo X61 three times. Well, it’s not that I wanted to break my own hard disk… It’s just that I did small mistakes that made me [to think] to reinstall Fedora.

I guess I always install the same additional plugins and applications after each of the Linux installations. So… I think I should list them here.

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Repositories to be Added

• Fedora 11 – i386 (during Fedora 11 installation)
• RPM Fusion Free (you’ll get the Non-Free as well)

Installing Canon MP145 Printer/Scanner Drivers on Linux

Thanks to Jonath who gave me permission to translate his blog post.

This guide has been tested in Fedora 9 and 11.

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1. Downloading the Drivers

Download three archives from link1, link2, and link3, and extract them. (Right click and choose Extract here, or use whatever commands you like to extract them.)

In the extracted archives, you will see some packages (.rpm and .deb) or other archives that may not be needed.

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2. Installing the Drivers

Using GUI:

Double click the following packages, and authenticate installation using root password.

1. cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm (from link1)
2. scangearmp-common-1.10-1.i386.rpm (from link2)
3. scangearmp-mp140series-1.10-1.i386.rpm (from link2)
4. cnijfilter-mp140series-2.80-1.i386.rpm (from link3)

Using Command Line:

1. Login to root using su
2. Enter the following four commands
   rpm -ivh scangearmp-common-1.10-1.i386.rpm
   rpm -ivh scangearmp-mp140series-1.10-1.i386.rpm
   rpm -ivh cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm
   rpm -ivh cnijfilter-mp140series-2.80-1.i386.rpm

Another way is to use sudo before every rpm above, if you don’t like using su.

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3. Configuring and Testing the Printer

Make sure that your printer is plugged in to your computer and turned on.

1. Go to System > Administration > Printing.
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2. Right click on MP140-series and choose Properties.
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3. Click the Change button on Make and Model.
4. Wait for the new window to load a list of printers.
5. Select printer from database, choose Canon, and click Forward.
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6. Choose MP140 Ver 2.8 as the printer model, and click Forward.
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7. Choose Try to copy the option settings over from the old PPD. After that, click Apply.
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You can print a test page to test the printer.

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4. Testing/Using the Scanner

The scanner driver only works in GIMP.

In GIMP 2.6.6, choose File > Create > ScanGear MP.
In some older versions of GIMP, choose File > Acquire > ScanGear MP.

Two Fatal Small Mistakes in Linux and How to Avoid Them

Since I’m a newbie, I wrote this for myself

In the past two days, I did two small mistakes and caused myself to reinstall Fedora 11 twice. (In other words, I’ve installed it 3 times ^^;)

Here are the two mistakes.

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