Scanner not Detected

[daniell59]

You never responded to the question in post 6 about the incorrect version. Did you make that change in your Brother Scripts? If you run the command suggested in post 6 ( apt list libsane), what output do you get? I would expect it to be the same as that shown in post 6.

aniel@daniel-N68SA-M2S:~$ apt list libsane
Listing... Done

[daniell59]

Just some reflecting.
I will try again once I finally build my new computer.
Some thoughts
I had no trouble with the scanner on my previous, now dead and gone computer. I had taken the SD out and put it in my present one. That is the only time that the scanner was detected with this computer. When I reinstalled the OS, I was never able to get it to work again.
Thanks to all for your patience

[Dennis N]

If you want to check the version of libsane, you can use dpkg:

dmn@Kayleigh:~$ dpkg --list libsane*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                Version                Architecture Description
+++-===================-======================-============-===========================================================
ii  libsane-common      1.2.1-7build4          all          API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
ii  libsane-hpaio:amd64 3.23.12+dfsg0-0ubuntu5 amd64        HP SANE backend for multi-function peripherals
ii  libsane1:amd64      1.2.1-7build4          amd64        API library for scanners

The ii at the beginning of line indicates the package is installed. libsane must be installed in Ubuntu by default, since I have no scanner on this machine.

Sorry I cannot help further. No experience with that Brand. I do have an old Acer scanner on my other Linux computer, and it was not easy to get working. You have my sympathy.

[Yellow Pasque]

The problem is that libsane has just been a transitional package that points to libsane1 for several releases of Debian/Ubuntu now. It was removed in Ubuntu 23.10

The easiest way around this is installing the last libsane package to make brscan-skey stop complaining: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/651734....1-1_amd64.deb