[sane-devel] Need help with Canon scanner

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

On 20 August 2015 at 16:23, Alan McConnell <alan at his.com> wrote:
>       But this gives me error messages, letting me know that
>       the install was not successful.

What are the error messages?

>       So, alas, I need further assistance.  Is there a way
>       of removing _all_ sane stuff from my computer and
>       then downloading from sane-project.org a bunch of the
>       latest packages?  This seems cumbersome, but what I
>       am doing is not successful.

The sane project does not distribute binaries. Before you give up on
the binaries from Debian, let us see what the problem was.

Regards

Jeff