How To Install simple-scan on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install simple-scan
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is simple-scan
simple-scan is:
Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested. Task: ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: simple-scan Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.0-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jörg Frings-Fürst [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1288 Depends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, xdg-utils, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.10), libcolord2 (>= 0.1.10), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.92), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libgusb2 (>= 0.2.2), libpackagekit-glib2-18 (>= 0.9.4), libsane (>= 1.0.24), libwebp6 (>= 0.5.1), libwebpmux3 (>= 0.6.1-2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Filename: pool/main/s/simple-scan/simple-scan_3.36.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 178816 MD5sum: 12297c2d459cd19e57e4866bb970b075 SHA1: 6f1914875a501d64d98d421cea13b63ca10d9a44 SHA256: de42033875dd66afe47ffa1f1ca96af69c801227f8d78030f8851f3d1afb2cb3 Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan Description-en: Simple Scanning Utility Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested. Task: ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install simple-scan
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install simple-scan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install simple-scan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install simple-scan
Install simple-scan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install simple-scan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install simple-scan
Install simple-scan 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 simple-scan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install simple-scan
How To Uninstall simple-scan on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the simple-scan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove simple-scan
Uninstall simple-scan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall simple-scan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove simple-scan
Remove simple-scan Configurations and Data
To remove simple-scan
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge simple-scan
Remove simple-scan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove simple-scan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge simple-scan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install simple-scan
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.