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Updated October 19 2011 to use never version drivers. Works on Debian and LMDE too.

Tired of wasting money buying ink-jet cartridges that run out without even using them, I recently bought a Canon ImageCLASS MF4270 Laser Printer. It is also a multifunctional device with scanner, copier and fax.

Canon now provides .deb files for easy installation of their ImageCLASS MF4270 printer on Ubuntu Linux (or other debian based distributions). Unfortunately they are only providing them for i386 (32 Bit Systems)

For RPM based distributions however, they do provide 64-Bits installation files.

Using alien I converted these 64bit RPM to deb.

I am making them available here for your convinience:

• cndrvcups-common_2.20-2_amd64.deb
• cndrvcups-ufr2-us_2.20-2_amd64.deb

Dont forget to set the device URI to: socket://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9100 (x’s being the IP address of printer)

Canon mf4270 Printer Properties

For the scanner part follow this guide:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/installing-canons-imageclass-mf4270-scanner-on-ubuntu-64-bit/

Related links:
http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-your-scanner-new-freshly-sane.html

Original: October 25 2008.
EDIT: Updated April 24 2009 to use never version drivers.
EDIT: Updated October 19 2011 to use never version drivers.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Debian, Linux, MInt, Ubuntu.

Tags: Canon ImageCLASS 4270, Debian, LMDE, Printer.

UPDATED Jul 23/2011

Finally we have a native 64bit Flash 11. It is working very well, I highly recommend it.

Before installing it, make sure that previous versions of Flash and nspluginwrapper are uninstalled.

Download it from:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz
untar, copy and link  libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by doing the following in the terminal. (make sure you close Firefox first)

tar zxvf flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

Done!

Or, alternatively (you should always read and understand scripts before running them) you can do this installation just by copying and pasting the following in the terminal:

wget https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash_x64_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash_x64_en.sh

This script will install Native 64 Bit Flash 11 and will also remove previous versions of flash and “nspluginwrapper”
Note: If you just want to see the code for the script, it is available here:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash_x64_en.sh

EDIT #1: January 01/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.d21.1
EDIT #2: March 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.22.87
EDIT #3: August 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.32.18
EDIT #4: January 05/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.42.34
EDIT #5: February 11/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.45.2
EDIT #6: October 12/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.2.161.23 Preview
EDIT #7: July 23/2011: Updated everything to use latest version of Adobe Flash version 11.0.1.60

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Firefox, Flash, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: 64-bit, Flash 11, Ubuntu.

1) Make sure Google Talk plugin is installed.

2) In the terminal:

sudo apt-get install lib32v4l-0
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real
echo '#!/bin/sh' | sudo tee /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real" | sudo tee -a /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo chmod +x /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin

3) Restart Browser.

Done!

In case you need to revert:

sudo rm /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Google, Google +, Google Chat, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: Google chat, Google Plus, Webcam.

To install the scanner of the multifunctional printer MF4270, do the following.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane checkout sane-backends
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
cd sane-backends/
./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install
cp /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules ~/
sudo cp tools/udev/libsane.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules
sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Test sane version, should be 1.x.xcvs

scanimage -V

add your self to the scanner group

logout and then login.

Done!

For the Printer part follow this guide:

https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/installing-canon-imageclass-mf4270-on-ubuntu-64-bit/

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Linux, Ubuntu.

Tags: Canon ImageCLASS 4270, Scanner.

I just upgraded to 9.04.

I have got to say that this is the most solid and polished Ubuntu yet. It Rocks!
No mayor new features as development was concentrated on stability, reliability and speed. They delivered!

Upgrade went without issues at all. Even my nvidia dual head setup that was always a problem with upgrades was handled perfectly.

Zero problems!

Upgrade took 1.5 hours TOTAL, using the Costa Rica mirror. With the MIT mirror it would have taken 13 hours.

HIGHLY recommended!

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Linux, Ubuntu.

Tags: ubuntu 9.04, upgrade.

Now there are no more reasons not to install 64bit Ubuntu. First is was Adobe with their native 64 bit Flash plug-in and now Sun has released a native 64 bit Java plug-in.

To install the 64 bit java plugin on Intrepid 8.10:

1. Download the bin file here
2. cd /opt
3. sudo sh jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008.bin
4. cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
5. sudo ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
6. Restart Firefox

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Firefox, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: 64-bit, Java, Ubuntu.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Adobe has released a NATIVE 64bit Flash Player, Please see this post

Now that Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) is out, installing the latest version of flash 10 (ver. 10.0.12.36) is easier than never before, just type the following in your terminal

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Done!

Alternatively you can simply select the package flashplugin-nonfree in synaptic.

Hardy users, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, see this post

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Flash, Ubuntu.

Tags: 64-bit, flash, intrepid, Ubuntu.

IMPORTANT UPDATE #2: Adobe has released a NATIVE 64bit Flash Player, Please click here to the newer post

To install Flash 10 version 10.0.12.36 on Ubuntu 8.04 64 Bits, (Released October 15 2008)

Copy and Paste the following on the terminal:

wget https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh

Done!

Note: If you just want to see the code for the script, it is available here:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Firefox, Flash, Linux, Ubuntu.

Tags: 64-bit, flash, Linux.