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Hi,<br>
What you could do in this case as an alternative, is just edit
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf and comment out the genesys backend as that is
where the issue seems to be coming from (if you do not have a
genesys device of course).<br>
In that case, you need not use sane-git at all.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-04-08 2:00 p.m., Paul Graff
wrote:<br>
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<p>Thank you for your response. Before I do install the sane-git
ppa I would like to inform you that I do currently have the
sane-release ppa installed. I have enclosed a screenshot of
update manager displaying this information as well as the
underlying packages from sane-release that are currently
installed. -> Software Sources ->
sane-project/sane-release -> open ->
libsane1,libsane,libsane-common,sane-utils are all 'ticked'. I
have verified they are installed .........</p>
<p>1. If I enable the sane-git ppa I could possibly have conflicts
between it and sane-release ppa. I have experienced this before
actually and received some great help with the issue.</p>
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Yes, definitely don't have both sane-releases and sane-ppa enabled
at the same time.<br>
<br>
I would think you could probably enable sane-git and disable
sane-releases, update and upgrade and it should be fine.<br>
If there are issues, then just remove all the SANE packages from
sane-releases and then reinstall them back again.<br>
<br>
There is always risk in tracking sane-git as it is not guaranteed to
be stable.<br>
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<p>2. Can I ask what the safest way to proceed by doing this would
be? Possibly I can simply untick sane-project/sane-release in
software sources and add the following through the terminal by
following the steps below?:</p>
<h2>Adding this PPA to your system<br>
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<p>You can update your system with unsupported packages from this
untrusted PPA by adding <strong class="ppa-reference">ppa:sane-project/sane-git</strong>
to your system's Software Sources. (<a
href="https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html"
target="help" class="help" moz-do-not-send="true">Read about
installing</a>) </p>
<pre class="command subordinate">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-git
sudo apt-get update</pre>
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Yes, I would disable the sane-releases PPA in Software Sources,
update (which I think it will ask you to do anyway), then add the
sane-git PPA, update (again I think you get this for free), then
upgrade and you should get the new sane-git binaries.<br>
<br>
But note the previous alternative suggestion if that would work for
you.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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