Comment 5 for bug 502920

I've Just got a Canon iRC2880 working on ubuntu 10.10 64 bits.

Here is what I did.

I got the UFR II drivers v2.10 from http://fr.software.canon-europe.com/
I converted the 64 bits rpm files using alien and I installed them :
    alien cndrvcups-common-2.10-1.x86_64.rpm
    alien cndrvcups-ufr2-uk-2.10-1.x86_64.rpm
    dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_2.10-2_amd64.deb
    dpkg -i cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.10-2_amd64.deb

Then I added the printer in the ubuntu printer manager. Everything went smoothly, but when I printed the test page (or anything else), I got only this on the paper :
    **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

It took me some time to understand that some part of the 64 bits driver are still 32 bits and depends on some other 32 bits libs, so I installed ia32-libs :
    apt-get install ia32-libs

And after this, the printer is working perfectly !

It would be nice to have an ubuntu package for this driver, but note that it is not GPL. It contains some close source library and the licence contains some strong restrictions.