UPDATE/CHANGE to: which of THESE scanners/printers will surely work on Ubuntu 22.04?

[Keith]

On 10/18/22 12:28 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 20:00:37 PM +0100, ubuntu at howorth.org.uk wrote:
> 
>>> The doubts I have about this solution are:
>>>
>>> - USB-powered??? This worries me. I was giving for granted I would
>>>    connect this via a small USB hub to an Intel NUC, but it won't work,
>>>    will it? And if I attached this to the only USB port still available
>>>    on the NUC, would it drain too much power from a device like that?
>>
>> Use a powered USB hub. Amazon Basics is one example.
> 
> Right now I have a passive 4 ports hub for mouse, keyboard, webcam and
> printer/scanner.  A powered hub would be a problem, regardless of its
> cost, because of course it needs a socket..
> 
> I could attach a new active hub to the already installed passive one,
> but my custom desk has no more easy to reach sockets. I CAN find a
> solution, of course, but I'll go for an active hub only if told that
> it is absolutely needed for this scanner. Is it?
> 
>>> - the SANE website says that scanner is fully supported via the "pixma
>>> 0.28.6 driver", but I do not understand, or recognize, whether the
>>> sane package coming with Ubuntu 22.04 does contain that specific
>>> driver or not, and/or if I would need other packages (Vuescan???):
>>
>> https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/products/scanners/lide_series/canoscan-lide-400.html?type=drivers&language=en&os=linux%20(64-bit)
> 
> that package is for Ubuntu 18.04. After posting here, I also asked on
> the sane-devel, and just a few minutes ago they pointed me to the sane-project PPAs:
> https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release
> 
> (for the record, what I really need is to drive the scanner at maximum
> resolution within a bash script, not a fancy GUI)
> 
> Further comments/help still welcome, of course.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco
> 

Using that PPA will be fruitless. There are no packages to install for 
Jammy because of build failures.

https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=jammy

-- 
Keith