How To Install sane-airscan on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is sane-airscan
sane-airscan is:
Similar to how most modern network printers support “driverless” printing, using the universal vendor-neutral printing protocol, many modern network scanners and MFPs support “driverless” scanning.
Driverless scanning comes in two flavors:
- Apple AirScan or AirPrint scanning (official protocol name is eSCL)
- Microsoft WSD, or WS-Scan (term WSD means “Web Services for Devices)
This backend implements both protocols, choosing automatically between them. It was successfully tested with many devices from Brother, Canon, Kyocera, Lexmark, Epson, HP, Ricoh, Samsung and Xerox both in WSD and eSCL modes.
There are three methods to install sane-airscan
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sane-airscan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sane-airscan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sane-airscan
Install sane-airscan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sane-airscan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sane-airscan
Install sane-airscan Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sane-airscan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sane-airscan
How To Uninstall sane-airscan on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the sane-airscan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sane-airscan
Uninstall sane-airscan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sane-airscan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sane-airscan
Remove sane-airscan Configurations and Data
To remove sane-airscan
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sane-airscan
Remove sane-airscan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sane-airscan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sane-airscan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.