Am 07.05.20 um 03:12 schrieb Steven Santos:
Hey, I wrote that page!
Did you try using the updated version via the ppa listed?
As far as I can remember, I used the PPA version of sane. It was on a friends
computer, so I can't look at it.
-Ulf
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 8:26 PM Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@gmx.de
<mailto:ulf.zi...@gmx.de>> wrote:
Am 06.05.20 um 12:11 schrieb AugustQ:
> Hi Ulf,
>
>
> did you mean this thread:
>
https://www.mail-archive.com/sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net/msg01073.html
Yes!
> In one of your postings you mentioned this site:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane_Troubleshooting#Brother
>
>
> Following this advice I did:
>
> 2001 ls -l /usr/lib64/libbr*
> 2002 ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> 2003 sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
> 2004 cat /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
> 2005 sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother*
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
> 2006 sudo service udev restart
> 2007 simple-scan
>
> simple-scan starts and detects my Brother DCP-7010. Starting the
> scan-process a paer appears on the screens with circles moving around
> but then the message appears: could not connect to scanner.
>
>
> No solution, sorry.
Sorry from my side too.
It worked for me as described in the thread with a fresh install of Ubuntu
18.04. I too installed ubuntu-unity-desktop and worked from that surface.
-Ulf
