I have a Brother multi function printer & scanner (MFC-J6720DW). This worked well under Bookworm both as printer and scanner. I bought it in 2008, it does not get high usage.
Scanning worked nicely with xsane. It needs some proprietary driver from Bother. Printing works under Trixie. I have a problem with scanning. When I run the Brother script it tries to install libsane. Libsane exists on Bookworm but not Trixie. Both Trixie and Bookworm have package libsane1 https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libsane1 Libsane is described as a "transitional package" https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libsane • Could I just grab the source of libsane & compile it ? • Could I grab the Bullseye libsane & just install on Trixie ? • Why is it not available in Trixie ? Installation fails thus: Setting up brscan-skey (0.3.2-0) ... apt-get install libusb-0.1-4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: brscan-skey : Depends: libsane (>= 1.0.11-3) but it is not installable -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html #include <std_disclaimer.h>
