Request for Iscan (Software+Drivers for Epson scanners)

[asqwerth]

I ask because some users might try to switch to other repos to try to get libreoffice-fresh or something....

[Mich-C]

Ok guys, I completely reinstalled MX. Now I'm using MX 18.3 and I kept my old /home partition from MX 18.1

It seems that there's no way I can use this scanner

1) new Image Scan package compiled by @timkb4cq
It's not listed in the test repo of MX 18 package manager.
So I downloaded it from the mirro link in this thread, but...
probably Tim compiled from MX 19 and some dependencies are not satisfied on MX 18.3.
I tried installing them manually but they're too many and I ended up removing them because it's not a good idea.

2) compiling from source the old IScan package
I just need to give "./configure" , "make" and "sudo make install" , the problem is that when giving "./configure" I get this error

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checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTK... no
checking for GTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+) were not met:

No package 'gtk+' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS
and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

At this point I installed libgtk-3-dev but nothing has changed and I don't know how to correctly set environment variables...
Should I install libgtk-2-dev instead? (anyway it's not a supported package)

3)IScan package (.deb version I just found on the epson website) (http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php)
Now I have a different Image Scan on my computer but the scanner is still not detected

[Mich-C]

If this could help...

sudo sane-find-scanner

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 # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x138a, product=0x003f) at libusb:007:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

sudo scanimage -L

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scanimage: no SANE devices found