On 06.02.2017 19:57, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 00:36 +0100, Horst Kern wrote:
Hello there,
please do not be too unkind with me, if I ask a dumb question.
My new Canon Pixma Scanner 5751 does not work with the scanner
programs
like simple-scan on my Ubuntu Linux.
I turned on debugging and found many lines like this:
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of pixma to 21.
[pixma] pixma is compiled with pthread support.
[pixma] pixma version 0.17.18
[pixma] Scanner model MP150(Canon PIXMA MP150) not found, giving up!
MG5700 series
[pixma] Scanner model MP170(Canon PIXMA MP170) not found, giving up!
MG5700 series
I downloaded the latest sane backend: sane-backends-e3ed043
In the code I found, that MG5700 is listed.
Is there any way to install the update, or do I need to compile from
source? (Did not do that for a long time!)
Best Regards,
Horst.
Hi Horst
You need an updated package, so recompiling may be the way to go. If
you are on Ubuntu, Rof Bensch's PPA (see https://launchpad.net/~rolfben
sch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git) may help you. Otherwise check the
INSTALL.LINUX.
BR, louis
Thanks Louis for the hints.
I did not want to have much effort, so I did not install the
USB-sources, although it might be dangerous. I expect to have the
expected support in one of the next official Ubuntu updates. So I did it
quick and dirty. Later I found a German description, for what to do, but
it seems slightly more complicated.
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/SANE/Kompilieren/
So what I did after the download and extract (which I had done before to
check the sources for string "MG5700 series").
cd sane-backends-e3ed043
./configure
make
I read PROBLEMS, because that is what they tell you during compilation.
As root:
make install
"Remove" current sane libs:
(Which are not in /usr/lib, as described in the README file. In the file
INSTALL there is more accurate information. The dynamic solution in the
INSTALL.linux was too complicated for me.)
mkdir /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xxxsane
cd /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
mv sane xxxsane
mv libsane.so.1.0.25 xxxsane
mv libsane.so.1 xxxsane
As normal user:
Add installation dir to library search path:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
It worked.
So I added this last line to my .bashrc
Many thanks to the developers of the sane software.
Best Regards,
Horst.
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