I hope to get a Canon PIXMA MP160 all-in-one printing with a computer running Damn Small Linux (���DSL���) and CUPS.

Right now, I have access to neither the computer nor the printer, but hope to get guidance in advance about the matter.

Last weekend, in the absence of access to the computer running DSL and CUPS, I was able to get the MP160 printing with a computer running Fedora Core 3 and CUPS.

I did that by installing two RPMs supplied by Canon, which it said were for Fedora Core 6.
 
Due to RAM and storage constraints, I can't hope (by, for example, using alien) to install the entire contents of those two RPM packages on the computer running DSL

However, among the installed files from the two RPMs were: (1) a .ppd file; (2) a filter file; and (3) a backend file.

The .ppd file included a line referring to the filter file.

I have two questions:

  1. Is there any chance that by copying all three of the files I���ve mentioned to the appropriate directories on the computer running
     DSL, I could get the MP160 to print with that computer?
  2. If not, could I edit the .ppd file to remove the reference to the filter file and copy only the edited .ppd file to the computer
     running DSL, relying on the fact that default CUPS filter and backend files are already on that computer?

Thanks for reading,

Leslie

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