[sane-devel] [Bulk] Re: Agfa Snapscan Touch, X-Sane 0.991, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

[m. allan noah]

perhaps your package manager should not allow you to install xsane
without the backends?

allan

On 3/1/08, Jonathan Ellis <Jonathan at getmylicence.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Allan,
>  I tried running scanimage and it turned out that sane-utils was not installed. After installing sane-utils the scanner is now recognised and works properly.
>
>  For the benefit of other newbies like me: To install sane-utils type the following in a terminal window or search for sane-utils in Synaptic
>      sudo apt-get install sane-utils
>
>  Maybe this could go into the documentation?
>
>  Regards
>  Jonathan Ellis
>
>
>  On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:09 -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
>  have you tried running scanimage -L as root, just to cut out any
> permissions problems?
>
> allan
>
> 2008/2/28 Jonathan Ellis <Jonathan at getmylicence.co.uk>:
> >
> >  Hi.
> >  I am trying to get an Agfa Snapscan Touch to work with X-Sane 0.991 on
> > Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
> >  I have followed the info at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ScanningHowTo
> > under Manually installing a scanner. The niash line is already uncommented.
> >  I have restarted Gnome but Xsane still cannot find the device.
> >
> >  Unfortunately I am a newbie and I am rather bewildered by the various
> > documentation at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Scanner-HOWTO/index.html and
> > http://bertrik.sikken.nl/hp3300c/README.html.
> >  Can anyone help me please?
> >
> >  Thanks.
> >
> >  Regards
> >  Jonathan
> >
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>
>   --
> Jonathan Ellis
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> Harrow
> HA1 1SQ
> Email: Jonathan at GetMyLicence.co.uk
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