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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

hreeder
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    Where did you get this bundle? It should contain a plugin, that doesn't go with all scanner drivers. – Pilot6 Aug 14 '17 at 16:38
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    Possible duplicate of [Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner](https://askubuntu.com/questions/309307/epson-perfection-v600-photo-scanner) – Cas Apr 19 '19 at 10:00

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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.

Al Preston
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