I got xsane running by copying the content of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/sane from the old Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) installation to the same location in my Ubuntu 17.10 (64 bit) install.
According to sane-config --version the "old" libraries are from the release 1.0.23. (And the naming of the files also suggests that.) I then tried to compile sane from source according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource in the hope to bisect the commit where this change happend: sudo apt-get install libusb-dev build-essential libsane-dev sudo apt-get install libavahi-client-dev libavahi-glib-dev git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-avahi make sudo make install After each install I rebooted the machine in order to flush any cached libraries from memory. This first attempt did not work. (Same error as described above). I then tried the various newer releases and one older one (1.0.22): git checkout RELEASE_1_0_xx configure, make, make install, reboot, test. However, all of those fail. The only version that works every time is the one I've copied from Ubuntu 14.04. At this point I don't know how to proceed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756201 Title: xsane not aquiring images from Lide 30 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1756201/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
