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<p class="western" lang="en-US"> In a new installation of Linux Mint
21.2 Victoria GIMP offers only “<span lang="zxx">scanimage</span>”.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">My printer/scanner is a Epson
XP-6100Here is what I have done:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">Installation of GIMP via
Application Installation (“<span lang="de-CH">Anwendungsverwaltung</span>”
in German)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">Installation of </span><span
lang="zxx">XSane</span><span lang="en-US"> via Application
Installation</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">Set a symbolic link: </span>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<blockquote>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"> <font face="courier new"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="zxx"><span
style="background: transparent">ln -s
/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins </span></span></font></font>
</p>
</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">Deleted the cache</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">The Menu “File” > “create” shows
only “<font face="courier new"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><span lang="zxx"><span
style="background: transparent">scanimage</span></span></font></font>”.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">Because the Epson XP-6100 was not
supported when I installed in 2021 on Linux Mint 20.0 I had to
install via the <span lang="zxx">ppa</span>
“sane-project/sane-git”. For that reason I did the following: </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">I u</span><span
lang="en-US">ninstalled </span><span lang="zxx">XSane</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">I a</span><span
lang="en-US">dd</span><span lang="en-US">ed</span><span
lang="en-US"> the </span><span lang="zxx">ppa</span><span
lang="en-US"> “</span><span lang="en-US">sane-project/sane-git”</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">I i</span><span
lang="en-US">nstalled </span><span lang="zxx">XSane</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">I set a symbolic link: </p>
<ul>
<p class="western" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Courier New, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span lang="zxx">ln
-s /usr/</span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span lang="zxx">bin/xsane</span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Courier New, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span lang="zxx">
~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins</span></font></font></font>
</p>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">I deleted the cache</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="western" lang="en-US">The Menu “File” > “create” still
shows only “<font face="courier new"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><span lang="zxx"><span
style="background: transparent">scanimage</span></span></font></font>”.</p>
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