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    • (Deepin 15.4) Canon printer driver installer uninstalls... everything????
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    tokic
    deepin
    2017-11-08 13:41
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    Edited by tokic at 2017-11-8 05:54

    So.. my father installed deepin 15.4 on his system, set up everything (took a lot of time) and then lastly went on to install the driver for his Canon printer. He downloaded the driver from official canon website, ran install.sh as root and the installer soon after started removing pretty much every single thing that was installed on the system except for the things that were loaded in ram already. Naturally, I had to do the same thing when I heard what happened to him, and the same thing happened to me aswell. I WAS STUNNED at what a printer driver can do!!!! Then I pasted the output to google docs...

    Note: The text won't load in here so I renamed the file to .jpg (rename to .doc or whatever after you download)EDIT: Does the file show up anywhere here? I don't know if it even uploaded or saved.

    And this is where the driver was downloaded from (Linux 64-bit) https://www.canon-europe.com/support/products/imagerunner/ir1024if.aspx?type=drivers&language=EN&os=Linux%20(64-bit)





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    dance707
    deepin
    2017-11-08 14:56
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    Installer script as root ? maybe as sudo. I would first try Deepin Print Settings in your launcher. If you need to manually install, try right click your download and extract , then explore the blue folder to 64-bit_Driver and then to Debian. You will find the deb packages that can be opened with Deepin Package Manager.
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    tokic
    deepin
    2017-11-08 15:07
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    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/147841
    Installer script as root ? maybe as sudo. I would first try Deepin Print Settings in your launcher.  ...

    You are right, it was run as sudo, not root. Anyway, install.sh is an obvious choice for someone who simply opens the extracted folder as a lot of stuff is installed that way in Linux distros. I contacted Canon support to kinda report the bug (?) and maybe fix it.
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    rdlg
    deepin
    2017-11-08 17:21
    #3
    you can look up /var/log/apt/history.log to find which package has dependency problem.
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    tokic
    deepin
    2017-11-09 00:44
    #4
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/147841
    you can look up /var/log/apt/history.log to find which package has dependency problem.

    There's a whole bunch of listed packages after
    1. apt-get --no-install-recommends -y --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated install less plymouth man-db sudo user-setup
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    I don't know how to figure out which ones are a problem.
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