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I have downloaded Epson's iscan-bundle-1.0.0-x64.deb and run sudo ./install.sh. The script runs without errors. However, the device driver does not get installed. As a test I ran Simple Scan and it says to install the device driver. Iscan says it cannot send commands to the scanner.

What am I missing? Thanks, Hugh

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I have an Epson ME Office 620F. Imagescan is what I have been using so far. But the following steps will help in installing any package that depends on libsane instead of libsane1(included in Ubuntu 17.10)

  1. Enable "Pre-release updates(artful-proposed)
  2. Update sources

  3. Install: libsane1 (e.g. 1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2.1) & copy libsane-epkowa files to x86-64 libs:

    sudo cp /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/

  4. Install your dirver bundle, for instance in my case(ME-620F) iscan-bundle-1.X.X.x64.deb from http://support.epson.net/linux/en/iscan_c.php?version=1.0.4 (or your required driver that depends on libsane)

  5. edit /etc/udev/rules.d/79-udev-epson.rules

    sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/79-udev-epson.rules

    Add the following:

    # chmod device EPSON group
ATTRS{manufacturer}=="EPSON", DRIVERS=="usb", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
  6. Reboot

Thanks to tanstaafl on https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/epson-iscan-und-ubuntu-17-10-geloest/

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You installed a wrong driver for this scanner. It doesn't have a plugin that is needed.

You need to go to the Epson Drivers Site, search for V600 and download the driver.

The file is called iscan-gt-x820-bundle-1.0.1.x64.deb.tar.gz.

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Be aware that iscan-gt-x820-bundle-1.0.1.x64.deb.tar.gz is uninstallable in (K)ubuntu 17.10 as it depends on libsane which has been replaced with libsane1, which the installer doesn't recognize.

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Ubuntu 23.10

As Pilot6 said, you need to go to the Epson Drivers Site, search for your model and download the driver.

The drivers depend on libsane. However, in Ubuntu 23.10, the package libsane is missing. A workaround is to download and install the libsane package from another Ubuntu release. In the example below, I am using libsane from Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) for amd64 architecture. You also have to install libsane1 package, because libsane depends on it.

sudo apt install libsane1
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/sane-backends/libsane_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libsane_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb

After that, you should be able to install your drivers with Running sudo ./install.sh from within the driver's directory.

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