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, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 Support Free Software Support the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/donate https://my.fsf.org/join GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org