[sane-devel] Brother: does not scan

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 06.05.20 um 12:11 schrieb AugustQ:
> Hi Ulf,
>
>
> did you mean this thread:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net/msg01073.html


Yes!

> In one of your postings you mentioned this site:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane_Troubleshooting#Brother
>
>
> Following this advice I did:
>
>   2001  ls -l /usr/lib64/libbr*
>   2002  ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>   2003  sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
>   2004  cat /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
>   2005  sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother*
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
>   2006  sudo service udev restart
>   2007  simple-scan
>
> simple-scan starts and detects my Brother DCP-7010. Starting the
> scan-process a paer appears on the screens with circles moving around
> but then the message appears: could not connect to scanner.
>
>
> No solution, sorry.
Sorry from my side too.

It worked for me as described in the thread with a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04. I too installed ubuntu-unity-desktop and worked from that surface.

-Ulf