Cannot use Epson scanner with Mint 20.1
by Brant from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5GT1D)
I own an Epson Perfection V550 Photo Scanner that worked well with Mint 19.3, but that I was unable to use when I upgraded to Linux Mint 20; the problem appeared to be with the installation of the Epson driver.
After repeated failure it was just easier to do any scanning with another OS or another computer. However I noticed in the release notes for 20.1 that some problems with scanners had been resolved so I tried again.
After installing Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon downloading and installing the Epson driver went smoothly: I now see the program "Epson Scan 2" in the menu, but unfortunately when it runs it says it cannot communicate with the scanner.
Running gscan2pdf also gave an error message (see attachments).
I did find this thread through the Linux Mint forums:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...2b9aab9773d403
which looked interesting, but I confess I did not fully understand it:
a) 'sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane'
b) generate '/etc/udev/rules.d/79-udev-epson.rules'
"a" is a command, but what is "b"?
Any help would be appreciated!
I am using an HP Pavillon dv6 laptop with 8G of RAM.
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After repeated failure it was just easier to do any scanning with another OS or another computer. However I noticed in the release notes for 20.1 that some problems with scanners had been resolved so I tried again.
After installing Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon downloading and installing the Epson driver went smoothly: I now see the program "Epson Scan 2" in the menu, but unfortunately when it runs it says it cannot communicate with the scanner.
Running gscan2pdf also gave an error message (see attachments).
I did find this thread through the Linux Mint forums:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...2b9aab9773d403
which looked interesting, but I confess I did not fully understand it:
a) 'sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane'
b) generate '/etc/udev/rules.d/79-udev-epson.rules'
"a" is a command, but what is "b"?
Any help would be appreciated!
I am using an HP Pavillon dv6 laptop with 8G of RAM.
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