How To Install sane-airscan on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan on Debian 11.
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 Debian 11. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 11
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 Debian 11, 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 Debian 11 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
Dependencies
sane-airscan have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.