[Solved] Trouble installing imagescan

[Member kaye]

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I have this folder on the desktop screen: iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb
I open it in terminal and type:
sudo ./install.sh

Here is the outcome:

Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://mirror.pregi.net/mx-linux-packages/antix/stretch stretch InRelease
Ign:4 http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Hit:6 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stretch InRelease
Hit:7 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com trusty InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libglide3 libxfont2 libxvmc1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libudev1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  eudev libeudev-dev libeudev1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libudev1 udev xsltproc
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,362 kB of archives.
After this operation, 684 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 130966 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libeudev-dev:amd64 (232:3.2.7.3) ...
dpkg: eudev: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 ceni depends on udev | eudev; however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.
  Package eudev is to be removed.
 bluez depends on udev (>= 170-1); however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.
 midisport-firmware depends on udev; however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.
 udisks2 depends on udev; however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.
 ceni depends on udev | eudev; however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.
  Package eudev is to be removed.
 libsane:amd64 depends on udev | makedev; however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.
  Package makedev is not installed.
 initramfs-tools-core depends on udev; however:
  Package udev is not installed.
  Package eudev which provides udev is to be removed.

Removing eudev (232:3.2.7.3) ...
No udevd found running; none killed.
dpkg: error processing package eudev (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 eudev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

If it matters, here is the output of inxi -b :
System:
Host: kaye Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2
Distro: antiX-17.4.1_x64-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: R439/R478 v: N/A serial: <root required>
Mobo: SAMSUNG model: R439/R478 serial: <root required> BIOS: Phoenix
v: 00UN.M001.20100814.LEO date: 08/14/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 4.4 Wh condition: 4.4/44.4 Wh (10%)
CPU:
Dual Core: Intel Core i3 M 380 type: MT MCP speed: 1466 MHz min/max: 933/2533 MHz
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1366×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp
LLVM 3.9.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter driver: wl
Device-2: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet driver: sky2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 494.66 GiB used: 143.40 GiB (29.0%)
Info:
Processes: 179 Uptime: 1h 26m Memory: 1.88 GiB used: 949.8 MiB (49.2%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.33

Thank you for your time!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by kaye.

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startpage.com
FYI I pasted “iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb” into searchbox and this was among the top results:
[Solved] Cannot make Image Scan work in Linuxmint 19
Although the solution it describes may not be entirely accurate for antiX, the details it explains may be helpful.

kaye wrote:

I have this folder on the desktop screen: iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb
I open it in terminal and type:
sudo ./install.sh

I’m struggling to make sense of what you wrote.
a debfile is a packagefile, a specially crafted archive file.
It cannot be treated as, handled as, a folder.
It cannot be “opened, in a terminal”.

When you “open a terminal and type”, the command interpreter only knows about items in the immediate directory plus programs residing in directories listed in your $PATH environment variable.

Typically, when you open a terminal emulator… your home directory is set as the working directory.

From what you wrote, I have no reason to expect ~/install.sh exists.
If it does exist, where did it come from? How did it get there?

In any event, nothing (zilch, zero) related to the scanner software package is detailed within the (apt update?) output shown in your post.

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I assume that you downloaded ‘iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb’ and that it’s in your ‘Downloads’ folder.

Open the Terminal and execute (line by line):

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install ~/Downloads/iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb

Wait until it’s done and answer the questions if asked.

Go to Start Menu and check if it’s inside:

Accessories
Graphics
Office

* If you get no error messages and if it installs properly, it might still be missing in Start Menu!

P.S.
You might also try SimpleScann (preinstalled) or GScannToPDF (has to be installed). They found Canon w/o problem — don’t know about Epson.

[Moderator caprea]

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The install.sh script from iscan-bundle worked for antiX17.2 and antiX17.3.
On antiX17.4 and antiX.19 it doesn’t and I dont now why.
I have a Epson office BX535WD with the same driver.

Please try the following.

sudo apt install xsltproc

In the iscan-bundle1.0.4.x64.deb-folder is a data-folder, clicking on the data-folder there’s iscan-data_1.39.0-1_all.deb
Open a terminal in this directory

sudo dpkg --install iscan-data_1.39.0-1_all.deb

In the iscan-bundle1.0.4.x64.deb-folder is also a core-folder, clicking on the core-folder there’s iscan_2.30.3-1_amd64.deb
Open a terminal in this directory
sudo dpkg --install iscan_2.30.3-1_amd64.deb

If you need the network-plugin you can do the same for the iscan-network.deb , which is in the plugins-folder

This worked here on antiX17.4 ad antiX19. Good luck !You could also try to install the deb-packages with gdebi, after installing xsltproc.

[Member kaye]

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You guys are awesome.

skidoo, it was a tar.gz file. I opened it with Archive Manager, and I can see inside the tar.gz file is a folder named “iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb”. That really is its name, it has a .deb in its name , but it is just a folder. And inside that folder are more folders, and inside those folders are actual/real deb files. These are the deb files that caprea was instructing me to install via terminal, or via gdebi.

Anyway, caprea’s instructions worked. I could execute iscan by first pressing Alt-F2, or pressing Ctrl-Alt-space (which is the same as Alt-F2 ?) and then typing iscan.
It is also in Menu -> Applications -> Graphics (Image Scan)

I am able to scan now.

Now if I can only make the printer connect to my wifi. Because now I’m scanning with the printer connected via cable to my laptop. I used to be able to print over wifi when I had the router from a previous DSL internet provider. Now that I’m on fiber internet with a different provider, I was given a different kind of router, and the printer won’t connect to that router like it used to with the older router. Maybe I should start another thread if any of you can help with that issue?

Thank you very much. I’ll mark this thread as solved.

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I used to be able to print over wifi when I had the router from a previous DSL internet provider.
Now that I’m on fiber internet with a different provider, I was given a different kind of router,
and the printer won’t connect to that router like it used to with the older router.

Just nitpicking but, you very probably didn’t see a router yet and the machine you have is 99% for sure a gateway.
(Approx.: Gateway = Access Point + Router + Modem + Evtl. Extras)

https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/51426/difference-between-router-and-gateway

Since you’ve got a new machine, it also has the new access point and it got new wifi credentials.

Probably easiest would be to consult your Epson manual and check on how to reset it.

Afterwards, you’ll of course, need to reconnect to your new access point.

[Moderator caprea]

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Normally,
for printing,scanning over wifi you need the ip-adress of the printer.
You can either look on the printer setup-display to find it out, or you look into your router/dhcp settings,
or if both will not work you could install arp-scan
and search the ip with
sudo arp-scan --localnet

If you found the printer’s ip-address open control-centre -> Hardware -> Printer Settings
Click on Add
Next screen has a Network Printer dropdown. Click on it. If you see your printer there already do NOT select it.
Instead select Find Network Printer. Enter the ip address of the printer there and click on Find.

This should work.

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Just to make some things clear, if you don’t know it already …

We are talking about two different steps that must be executed, in order to be able to print/scann wirlessly:

1. Your Printer/Scanner has to be properly connected to your Gateway (That’s what I was talking about)

2. Your PC has to be properly connected to your Printer/Scanner (That’s what caprea was talking about)

If one of both neccessary steps failes, you’ll obviously not be able to print/scann wirlessly.

[Member kaye]

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noClue, I can connect the printer to my laptop via cable and I could print and scan via that cable connection. Right now the printer cannot connect to the Gateway. I don’t know if there’s a way to reset the printer. I’ll check later.

I will try caprea’s command sudo arp-scan --localnet later.

By the way, caprea, your suggestion, in reply #21910

sudo apt install xsltproc

sudo dpkg --install iscan-data_1.39.0-1_all.deb

it worked with my laptop connected with the printer via cable, but it did NOT work with my desktop computer. It’s weird. Oh well as long as it works on my laptop it’s fine.

[Moderator caprea]

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My experience with iscan-bundle, if the dpkg-command works on the laptop but not on the desktop, I would then try the install.sh on the desktop.

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@caprea

Right now the printer cannot connect to the Gateway.

There’s no dpkg-command which can solve that issue.

There should be some user manual here:
https://epson.com/Support/sl/s

[Moderator caprea]

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kaye, I assume you know what I’m talking about, installing iscan-bundle on your desktop.

[Member kaye]

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caprea wrote:

Normally,
you could install arp-scan
and search the ip with
sudo arp-scan --localnet

If you found the printer’s ip-address open control-centre -> Hardware -> Printer Settings
Click on Add
Next screen has a Network Printer dropdown. Click on it. If you see your printer there already do NOT select it.
Instead select Find Network Printer. Enter the ip address of the printer there and click on Find.

This should work.

I had to first install by entering the command:
sudo apt install arp-scan

However, three questions:
1. Is it normal that arp-scan will not show my own ip-address? For example I’m using antiX right now on my laptop, I can see this laptop’s ip-address by entering the command ifconfig. This ip-address is not showing in arp-scan. Is this normal? It only shows my mobile phone ip-address and I guess the gateway.

2. How can I see the printer’s ip-address via arp-scan if the printer cannot connect to the gateway? Because executing sudo arp-scan –localnet does not show the printer’s ip-address. (The epson L355 wifi orange light is blinking).

3. When I execute this: sudo nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24

I get three devices:
My mobile phone.
My laptop.
A family member’s mobile phone.

Each of these devices are detailed in three lines, like this:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.9
Host is up (0.23s latency).
MAC Address: 50:75:47:C8:F0:BE (LG Electronics (Mobile Communications))

There is however a fourth one that looks like this:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.3
Host is up.

Just two lines instead of three. (No MAC Address)

I am not aware of any other device in the house that is connected to the gateway.
What could it be?

But just to be clear, the ability to print over wifi is more pressing.

Thank you!

Thank you

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by kaye.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by kaye.

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This thread is a ‘school example’ (== extremely bad) on ‘how NOT to’ ask & answer the questions (== solve problems).

It starts with a bad question, continues with a bad answer (because of a bad question) and we get 13+ posts — and the problem is still not solved.

The OP started without mentioning the machine name (EXACT NAME: MANUFACTURER + MODEL helps) and continued with advice on how to scan the network neighborhood and try to find the machine — which is possibly not at all connected to the AP.

You can scan the NW neighborhood forever — if your machine is not connected to the AP, you’ll never find it.

As I said above (#21959), start from the beginning!

1. RTFM

There should be explained on how to show/check the status of your machine.

There should be explained on how to connect/reset/reconnect your machine to the access point.

If your machine has an LCD display, it’s usually pretty easy and all it takes is, to simply go through the menus and read/click.

If your machine is a 39.99 $ ‘cheapo’ (has no LCD), then the user manual will tell you which button (or the combination of) you need to press to:

1. connect to some AP
2. reset machine
3. PRINT OUT different kinds of reports (== NW report)

There’s absolutely NO NEED to scan the network!
(See example on the screenshot)

* That ‘./install.sh’ inside the ‘.deb’ file was supposed to do exactly that: to check the connectivity, to ask you how do you wanna connect (USB/WiFi), to set the machine name and the description and such and to make the appropriate settings ‘automagically’ according to your answers.

(What you want to check/find out 1st (== before you start scanning the NW!) is, is your Epson connected to your AP at all/in the first place?)

[Member kaye]

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I marked this thread as solved because I was able to use iscan with my laptop connected to printer via cable. But still no success with my desktop computer connected to printer via cable. So here are more details regarding my desktop computer.

$ inxi -b
System:
  Host: my-desktop Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17.4.1_x64-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: Wolfdale1333-D667. serial: <root required> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.40 date: 03/14/2008 
CPU:
  Dual Core: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 type: MCP speed: 670 MHz min/max: 670/10166 MHz 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
  Device-2: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 960.41 GiB used: 98.92 GiB (10.3%) 
Info:
  Processes: 166 Uptime: 38m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 571.5 MiB (19.0%) Shell: bash 
  inxi: 3.0.29 

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 1130:1620 Tenx Technology, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 1c4f:0034 SiGma Micro 
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0951:1642 Kingston Technology DT101 G2
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
<strong>Bus 003 Device 007: ID 04b8:08a1 Seiko Epson Corp.</strong> 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2a7a:9a18  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

(printer is Epson L210)

1. Note that Simple-Scan (the pre-installed scanner of antiX) does not work after a fresh install of antiX, and after installing “epson-inkjet-printer-201207w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb”

2. Caprea’s advice regarding iscan installation on desktop computer did not work.
My experience with iscan-bundle, if the dpkg-command works on the laptop but not on the desktop, I would then try the install.sh on the desktop.
-caprea

3. Adding the following line to “/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf” did not work. It worked when I was using Lubuntu or Linuxmint.
usb 0x04b8 0x08a1

4. Copying these three files from “/usr/lib/sane” to “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane” did not help. It helped in Lubuntu or Linuxmint (forgot which)
libsane-epkowa.la
libsane-epkowa.so.1
libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15

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