Unable to install Canon LiDE 300 on Ubuntu 18.04. How to solve it?
Best Answer
Download the scanner's linux driver from the Canon website. It's the same driver for related models: scangearmp2-3.70-1-deb
Unpack and install the driver from the download directory:
./install.sh
Canon's own driver is not enough though, to get the Canon scanner working. It only half works. Assuming you have installed Sane. Sane will recognise the scanner.
$ sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1912 [LiDE 400]) at libusb:003:008
But it won't work.
$ scanimage -L
No scanners were identified
$ scanimage --format=png > test.png
scanimage: no SANE devices found
Likewise, SimpleScan won't yet detect the scanner.
It will scan at this stage by running Canon's own scanning software, supplied with the scanner download: scangearmp2. But this software is as rudimentary as toddler's tea set. It won't even let you change the resolution, filetype or scan area.
But thanks to the good work being done by @pekhterev and Rolf Bensch, the scanner will run if you install some more home-grown software.
The scanner worked from Xsane, after doing this. And from Gimp, by calling Xsane (it sees it as a pixma:04A91912 scanner). But the image was dull.
Thankfully, it now also works from SimpleScan.
.
Canon, btw, when I contacted them for help because their scanner didn't work, said. 'we don't support linux'. I said - but you've taken the time to supply a driver - surely you would want to make sure it actually worked when people installed it. They said, 'we don't support linux'.
Described problems are two years old. Probably you don't have to do anything to make it work, as other posters confirm, that it is included in Ubuntu. If you are new to Ubuntu you have to know, that most scanners and printers are installed by default. That means you just have to connect the USB-Cable to your computer, open "Simple Scan" (Open the Dash pressing Super or Windows next to Alt, then write "simple scan" enter) and press Scan.
Best Answer
Download the scanner's linux driver from the Canon website. It's the same driver for related models: scangearmp2-3.70-1-deb
Unpack and install the driver from the download directory:
Canon's own driver is not enough though, to get the Canon scanner working. It only half works. Assuming you have installed Sane. Sane will recognise the scanner.
But it won't work.
Likewise, SimpleScan won't yet detect the scanner.
It will scan at this stage by running Canon's own scanning software, supplied with the scanner download: scangearmp2. But this software is as rudimentary as toddler's tea set. It won't even let you change the resolution, filetype or scan area.
But thanks to the good work being done by @pekhterev and Rolf Bensch, the scanner will run if you install some more home-grown software.
(source here)
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The scanner worked from Xsane, after doing this. And from Gimp, by calling Xsane (it sees it as a pixma:04A91912 scanner). But the image was dull.
Thankfully, it now also works from SimpleScan.
.
Canon, btw, when I contacted them for help because their scanner didn't work, said. 'we don't support linux'. I said - but you've taken the time to supply a driver - surely you would want to make sure it actually worked when people installed it. They said, 'we don't support linux'.