I just upgraded to from Xenial 16.04 to Bionic 18.04 and unfortunately the scanner broke again.
Unfortunately the changes affect two places -- udev seems to have made big changes to the scanner section, so I wrote a completely new udev file, and the sane-dll backend doesn't look in the same directory. I composed my new udev script, then after lots of tinkering and some judicious use of the debug command: $ SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128 scanimage -L I discovered the changes to the sane-dll backend. I installed an instance of Trusty 14.04 and used the above command to confirm Trusty looked for brother2 in: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane /usr/lib/sane Bionic ONLY looks for brother2 in: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane I manually linked the files the brscan2 .deb installs into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/ and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/ and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and it seems to work. I will attempt to write up a procedure (for my benefit if nothing else). But it may take me a little while. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701856 Title: Brother's printer/scanner drivers awkward to find and install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
