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My question is the same as

why is "saned" disabled on boot Ubuntu 12.04?

I am trying to get an old Samsung SCX-4100 to scan to LibreOffice on 14.04.

I am a novice; the solution in the greyed out section looks promising BUT how in Terminal do I:

look inside /etc/default/saned :

# Defaults for the saned initscript, from sane-utils
# Set to yes to start saned
RUN=no
# Set to the user saned should run as
RUN_AS_USER=saned

Set RUN=yes

I entered

# Defaults for the saned initscript, from sane-utils

into Terminal but it refuses to recognise it as a command.

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Nic
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  • I edited the answer in question #652717. If my edit is accepted, re-read the answer. I hope it will help you. – numand Jul 25 '15 at 19:27

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TL;DR Thou shalt not start commands, but edit a file's contents.

To start saned automatically, follow the steps below:

  1. Open a terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T

  2. Open the file /etc/default/saned with

    sudo nano /etc/default/saned

  3. Replace the line

    RUN=no

    with

    RUN=yes

  4. Use Ctrl+O to save the file

  5. and Ctrl+X to close the editor

Or simply start the command

sudo perl -i -pe 's/RUN=no/RUN=yes/' /etc/default/saned

in a terminal

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  • @Nic As you're a reputation 1 user: If this answer helped you, don't forget to click the grey ☑ at the left of this text, which means "yes, this answer is valid"! ;-) – A.B. Jul 26 '15 at 09:03
  • AB, thanks, as intimated by my deleted post I would be delighted to "click the grey ☑ at the left of this text, " but there is no grey ☑ at the left of that text, sorry. There is one 12 lines up in the previous post: ticked that in case its what you'd like me to do. – Nic Jul 27 '15 at 11:52