Hi Goalie.
I don't have Mint on any of my computers but I believe Mint is based on Ubuntu which I do use, so the following instructions might work.
To create directory .scangear in home directory
Start a terminal session: Ctrl+Alt+t
Enter:
{Note the "."}
To extract the files
In your file manager, navigate to the scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb.tar.gz file that you put in Downloads.
Right click on that Scangear file then in the context menu that appears, select Open with.. then select Archive manager.
In the window that appears:
Click on Extract
When the file window appears, go to your home directory then
Enter Ctrl+h to display hidden directories. Then:
Navigate to the .scangear directory that you created in your home directory and double-click on it
(This will show the empty directory)
Click on the Extract button (top right?).
If you are invited to "show the files" or "Close", choose "close". You can also close the Archive Manager window.
To change the PATH variable so it can find your scangear files:
Return to your terminal session.
Enter:
Note the "."!
In the editor window, make the last two lines look like:
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin directories
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/.scangear/scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb"
Save the file and exit the gedit editor.
REBOOT YOUR PC.
Now install your files:
In your terminal enter:
cd .scangear/scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb
Then:
This should install scangearmp2
I can't guarantee that this will work in Mint but it works fine on my Ubuntu 18.04.
Good Luck!
Keith
Perfect!!!
Sorry this is taking such a long time.
The "install.sh" file is a long list of instructions for the PC to install the scangear drivers. To do this, the file has to be an "executable" file. We shall check that it is.
Start a terminal session then enter the following command followed by the "Enter" key: ls -l ~/.scangear/scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb/install.sh
I am expecting something like "-rwxr-xr-x 1 keith keith 18163 Nov 30 2017 /home/keith/.scangear/scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb/install.sh"
That's good: it means that no other additions have been made and we can add our .scangear directory to the PATH.
Copy the following lines and add them to the bottom of the file:# set PATH so it includes user's .scangear directory if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.scangear" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/.scangear/scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb:$PATH"
fi
Keith
Hi Goalie.
Not to worry - it's what we're here for.
The error message indicated a "broken pipe" so it looks like a file is missing in one of the libraries.
OK, so let's try re-installing simple-scan:
sudo apt --purge remove simple-scan
Then sudo apt install simple-scan
sudo mv /usr/lib/libcncpmslld2.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib/libcncpmslld2.so.3.0.0.bak
By the way: have you noticed that you can copy the code accurately by clicking on the [Select]?
Are you sure you did the sudo mv /usr/lib/libcncpmslld2.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib/libcncpmslld2.so.3.0.0.bak command first? As the first file (that Canon is complaining about) should no longer exist.
Please trysudo ls /usr/lib/libcncpmslld*
sudo mv /usr/lib/libcncpmslld2.so.3.0.0.bak /usr/lib/libcncpmslld2.so.3.0.0
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11 && scanimage > /dev/null