<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks, Olaf, now the scanner is recognized. But I am still unable to get it to scan. I'm getting a new USB cable and will verify it works on Windows before trying what Rolf suggested (which is frankly still outside my skillset). If I can't get the scanner to actually scan soon I will probably return the all-in-one, which I think would be a shame, but I just don't have the time to fight with this thing much longer. Maybe another week.<br><br></div>I really appreciate your help getting me to this point though!<br></div>Scott<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paddy-hack@member.fsf.org" target="_blank">paddy-hack@member.fsf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Scott writes:<br>
<br>
> Olaf, thank you for your continued help. Yes, I am a newbie to this<br>
> driver business among many things.<br>
><br>
> On 12/03/2015 04:52 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:<br>
>> Hi Scott,<br>
>><br>
>> monkity writes:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hi Olaf,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Olaf writes:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> [...]<br>
>>>> Have you tried sane-backends-1.0.25. That versions claims that support<br>
>>>> for the MF210 Series was added to the pixma backend.<br>
</span>> [...]<br>
<span class="">>><br>
>> Once downloaded, run<br>
>><br>
>> $ sudo dpkg -i libsane-1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb<br>
>><br>
>> and you should be good to go.<br>
><br>
</span><span class="">> So I ended up trying to install both i386 and amd64 versions. When I<br>
> updated these, I got errors, and had to fix broken packages. After I did<br>
> that, my SANE installation didn't work and the query you gave me gave<br>
> the following result, even after removing SANE and reinstalling it.<br>
<br>
</span>Sorry. I tried to take a shortcut and you ended up with a "mess".<br>
Let's see if we can clean that up.<br>
<br>
Please read this mail to the end before you start doing stuff.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> $ dpkg-query -W libsane<br>
> libsane:amd64 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1<br>
> libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2<br>
<br>
</span>That surprised me a bit so I pulled down the Linux Mint 17.2 64bit image<br>
and fired up a virtual machine to make sure that I knew what is going<br>
on. Looks like Linux Mint installs a number of packages for both 32 and<br>
64 bit architectures and libsane is one of them.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> So I then redid the command on the amd64 deb:<br>
><br>
> $ sudo dpkg -i libsane_1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb<br>
</span>> [...]<br>
<span class="">> libsane:amd64 depends on libsane-common (= 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2); however:<br>
> Version of libsane-common on system is 1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1.<br>
> libsane:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-port12 (>= 2.5.6); however:<br>
> Package libgphoto2-port12 is not installed.<br>
><br>
> dpkg: error processing package libsane:amd64 (--install):<br>
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured<br>
> Errors were encountered while processing:<br>
> libsane:amd64<br>
<br>
</span>I obviously forgot about the libsane dependencies. My bad.<br>
I have reproduced your situation in that virtual machine of mine.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Now my query came out as follows:<br>
> $ dpkg-query -W libsane<br>
> libsane:amd64 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2<br>
> libsane:i386 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2<br>
<br>
</span>To back out of this, use:<br>
<br>
sudo apt-get install libsane=1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1 libsane:i386=1.0.23-3ubuntu3.1<br>
<br>
This will downgrade the currently "installed" versions and get you back<br>
to a clean slate. You can check with:<br>
<br>
sudo dpkg --audit<br>
<br>
Things are okay if that produces no output.<br>
<br>
Now on to getting the libsane package from Ubuntu's wily installed.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> SANE is still not recognizing my Canon. Do the errors above give you<br>
> any new ideas for me to try?<br>
<br>
</span>First let's add the Ubuntu repositories to your list of package archives<br>
the way it's supposed to be done. Copy the attached 00-ubuntu-wily.list<br>
to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and update your available package<br>
information, like so<br>
<br>
sudo cp 00-ubuntu-wily.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d<br>
sudo apt-get update<br>
<br>
This should download a couple of files from <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">archive.ubuntu.com</a>.<br>
<br>
Next, lest you end up turning your Linux Mint into Ubuntu's wily almost<br>
completely ;-), copy the attached 00-ubuntu-wily.pref to<br>
/etc/apt/preferences.d/<br>
<br>
sudo cp 00-ubuntu-wily.pref /etc/apt/preferences.d<br>
<br>
Now we are ready to:<br>
<br>
sudo apt-get install -t wily libsane<br>
<br>
I tried this on my virtual machine and all went well. Hope it will for<br>
you to.<br>
<br>
In case you are curious about what's going on, have a look at the<br>
following manual pages (using the man command):<br>
<br>
sources.list<br>
apt_preferences<br>
apt-get<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
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