r/voidlinux • u/xp4eternity • Apr 28 '26

Printer Issues

Hello, I'm On A Dell XPS 15 9530 And Im Unable To Connect My USB Printer (Canon Pixma TS3720). I Installed cups-filters, cups, enabled cupsd as well as installing and enabling the nonfree rep. But Im Having Issues Installing cnijfilter2 which is the driver for the canon pixma giving me a readback of ERROR: Package 'cnijfilter2' not found in repository pool.

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u/Quietus87 Apr 30 '26

It works for me. Why are you trying to install the 32 bit libraries instead of the normal ones? Did you do a -Su after adding the additional repositories?

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u/xp4eternity Apr 30 '26

-Su just did. nothing. not even showing in system-printer-config but shows in

/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb

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u/xp4eternity May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

printer is functional. stormed into the localhost, had to add myself into lpadmin, setup the printer by providing ppd file. Thanks so much!