Thanks Lisi, but still having the same trouble...
I did this:
1) To /etc/apt/sources.list I added the line:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie-backports main
2) Then did: apt-get update
3) Then did:
apt-get -t jessie-backports install sane libsane libsane-common sane-utils
But when I try to scan, I get the same errors as described previously.
Am I doing something wrong there?
----- Original message -----
From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SANE scanner error on Debian Jessie
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 23:01:42 +0000
> Some new information about SANE scanner problem:
>
> Debian (scanner not working): libsane 1.0.24 libsane-common 1.0.24
>
> Ubuntu (scanner working): libsane 1.0.23 libsane-common 1.0.23
>
> To experiment, I used synaptic to remove everything related to SANE on
> Debian Jessie, and then compiled SANE 1.0.23 from source on it. And then
> command line SCANNING WORKED - Great!
>
> Unfortunately, as soon as I reinstalled either XSane or SimpleScan,
> synaptic reinstalled SANE 1.0.24 and then nothing worked again.
>
> If these questions sound like I don't know what I'm doing, it's because
> I don't know what I'm doing (amateur Debian user):
>
> 1) Is there some way I can install the older SANE 1.0.23 via Synaptic?
> 2) Alternatively, since SANE 1.0.22 was part of Wheezy - can that be
> installed via Synaptic on Jessie?
I wrote half an email before doing the correct Google search. :-(
I see that the Jessie libsane problem has already been solved:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libsane&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
So follow these directions for using Backports, and you will be home and dry:
http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
I don't know how you use backports in Synaptic. In Aptitude it is the same as
in apt-get, mutatis mutandis. You could always use apt-get just this once!
Lisi
>
> Original post:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/03/msg00241.html