[sane-devel] Hello World! & having trouble with SANE

[Mike Starr]

Ok thanks. I'm a little hesitant about adding custom repos to my system 
but if it breaks again I'll go for it.

Thanks again.

Mike

On 5/9/20 12:17 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> Great to hear it works.
>
> Instructions see [1]:
>
> SANE Release
>
> PPA description
>
> Ubuntu SANE packages from SANE Stable Source
> (https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases).
>
> Please send scanner related questions to the SANE mailing list:
> sane-devel at alioth-lists dot debian dot net.
>
> If you need the more recent scanner driver from git, you can use my
> other PPA: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git.
>
> Adding this PPA to your system
>
> You can update your system with unsupported packages from this
> untrusted PPA by adding ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release to your system's
> Software Sources. (Read about installing)
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release
> sudo apt-get update
>
> - Sedat -
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 7:59 AM Mike Starr <starrtennis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok I couldn't figure out how to install any packages from Rolf's
>> repo/site, but it did remind me to check that I do in fact have
>> sane/xsane packages installed. For some reason I have Simple Scan but
>> not those two. Installed them and now it works, super-fast and
>> efficient, color curves, really cool. Glad it's working. Used Synaptic.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 5/8/20 10:45 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 7:38 AM Mike Starr <starrtennis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi, just introducing myself. 31 yo California, Mike, Linux Ubuntu Bionic
>>>> (several years *nix experience). Canon MX-870.
>>>>
>>>> Can't for the life of me figure out how to get the scanner on the Canon
>>>> MX-870 MFS to work. I use Simple Scan and it connects to the printer,
>>>> but then stops shortly through the scan.
>>>>
>>>> Any help is welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you and Hello!
>>>>
>>> Hello Mike,
>>>
>>> did you try one of the PPA of Rolf?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> - Sedat -
>>>
>>> [0] http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-PIXMA >
>>> PIXMA MX870
>>> [1] https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=bionic
>>> [2] https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=bionic