Olaf, thank you for your continued help. Yes, I am a newbie to this
driver business among many things.
On 12/03/2015 04:52 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Hi Scott,
monkity writes:
Hi Olaf,
Olaf writes:
[...]
Have you tried sane-backends-1.0.25. That versions claims that support
for the MF210 Series was added to the pixma backend.
Seeing that you are using Linux Mint, I *guess* that you get your SANE
backends via the Ubuntu package archives. The version in Ubuntu's wily
(1.0.25+git20150528) appears to be new enough.
# The Changelog mention the addition on 2015-04-03.
Unfortunately nothing is that easy. Mint doesn't download the 1.0.25
backend with SANE; in fact it doesn't seem to do anything with respect
to backends. I'm afraid I'm going to have to build the backend from
scratch, and I have no experience with this.
I did find a copy of 1.0.25 on
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/sane.html.
That page, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane, and others aren't
really designed for Mint and newbies though. Where should I start?
Uh-oh, newbie alert ;-)
First, check that you have the libsane package installed. From a
terminal, run
$ dpkg-query -W libsane
If that produces something like
libsane:amd64 1.0.25-2
things look good. If, instead you get something like
dpkg-query: no packages found matching libsane
there is more work to do but I assume for now that libsane is found.
# If not, stop here and get back to me via the mailing list.
In that case, you can probably get away with downloading the Ubuntu
libsane package from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/libsane
Just make sure to pick the correct architecture.
Once downloaded, run
$ sudo dpkg -i libsane-1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
and you should be good to go.
Hope this helps,
So I ended up trying to install both i386 and amd64 versions. When I
updated these, I got errors, and had to fix broken packages. After I did
that, my SANE installation didn't work and the query you gave me gave
the following result, even after removing SANE and reinstalling it.
$ dpkg-query -W libsane
libsane:amd64 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1
libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2
So I then redid the command on the amd64 deb:
$ sudo dpkg -i libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for flibberty:
(Reading database ... 194182 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libsane:amd64 (1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2) over
(1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane:amd64:
libsane:amd64 depends on libsane-common (= 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2);
however:
Version of libsane-common on system is 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1.
libsane:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-port12 (>= 2.5.6); however:
Package libgphoto2-port12 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package libsane:amd64 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libsane:amd64
Now my query came out as follows:
$ dpkg-query -W libsane
libsane:amd64 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2
libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2
SANE is still not recognizing my Canon. Do the errors above give you
any new ideas for me to try?
Thanks again,
Scott
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