[sane-devel] Need help with Canon scanner

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Allan,

Sorry for my missunderstanding instrunction.

Please install latest Sane backend from git (it's the ongoing
development version) as described under "Step by step install on Linux
2.6.* and 3.*, both with udev" in README.linux. Here's the direct link:
http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux .

Cheers,
Rolf


Am 20.08.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Alan McConnell:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:47:55PM +0200, Rolf Bensch wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> The libsane version from Debian doesn't support your scanner.
>       There seems to be a consensus that I must upgrade to
>       libsane 1.0.24.  So I have downloaded
>       	      libsane_1.0.24-8_i386.deb
>       and run  dpkg -i  libsane_1.0.24-8_i386.deb.
>       But this gives me error messages, letting me know that
>       the install was not successful.
> 
>       So, alas, I need further assistance.  Is there a way
>       of removing _all_ sane stuff from my computer and
>       then downloading from sane-project.org a bunch of the
>       latest packages?  This seems cumbersome, but what I
>       am doing is not successful.
> 
>> You need to install Sane Development Version from git as described in
>> README.linux (http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html).
>   	I am guessing that SANE Standard Version 2.0(development)
> 	is what is being referred to here.  But when I click on this
> 	I am told that this is currently under development.
> 
> 	I apologize for what must seem like stupidity.  But sinee
> 	there are front-ends, back-ends, tools, etc for a person
> 	to cope with, perhaps I may be pardoned, and helped
> 	further.
> 
> Alan
>