Newbie hard driver install info request.

I'm a long time MSDOS/Windows user who is trying to get an understanding
ofof Linux (my current version is Ubuntu v5.10). My past includes
programming in IBM 1401, COBOL, Pascal and some C and a lot of various
hardware manipulations.

My first attempt at learning is to install the SANE front & backends to
make my Microtek Scanjet 4800 scanner operative. I've downloaded the
update files from SANE and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to
install it. Is there any documentation that I can refer to regarding the
steps\operations necessary for this attempt? (They will need to be rather
basic as my knowledge is very skimpy at this time.)

Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated!

Tom Clydesdale wrote:
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> I'm a long time MSDOS/Windows user who is trying to get an understanding
> ofof Linux (my current version is Ubuntu v5.10). My past includes
> programming in IBM 1401, COBOL, Pascal and some C and a lot of various
> hardware manipulations.
>
> My first attempt at learning is to install the SANE front & backends to
> make my Microtek Scanjet 4800 scanner operative. I've downloaded the
> update files from SANE and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to
> install it. Is there any documentation that I can refer to regarding the
> steps\operations necessary for this attempt? (They will need to be rather
> basic as my knowledge is very skimpy at this time.)
>
> Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated![/color]


if installed firefox browser use the ubuntu package search engine

ask for xsane and sane and libsane

install these files :D

maybe they would ask more files then install these as well

succes

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:22:26 +0100, Johan wrote:
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> Tom Clydesdale wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I'm a long time MSDOS/Windows user who is trying to get an understanding
>> ofof Linux (my current version is Ubuntu v5.10). My past includes
>> programming in IBM 1401, COBOL, Pascal and some C and a lot of various
>> hardware manipulations.
>>
>> My first attempt at learning is to install the SANE front & backends to
>> make my Microtek Scanjet 4800 scanner operative. I've downloaded the
>> update files from SANE and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to
>> install it. Is there any documentation that I can refer to regarding the
>> steps\operations necessary for this attempt? (They will need to be rather
>> basic as my knowledge is very skimpy at this time.)
>>
>> Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated![/color]
>
>
> if installed firefox browser use the ubuntu package search engine
>
> ask for xsane and sane and libsane
>
> install these files :D
>
> maybe they would ask more files then install these as well
>
> succes[/color]

I guess my level of "expertise" didn't come across low enough - how does
one go about "installing these files :D"?

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:15:52 -0700, Tom Clydesdale
<t.clydes@comcast.net> wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
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> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:22:26 +0100, Johan wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Tom Clydesdale wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I'm a long time MSDOS/Windows user who is trying to get an understanding
>>> ofof Linux (my current version is Ubuntu v5.10). My past includes
>>> programming in IBM 1401, COBOL, Pascal and some C and a lot of various
>>> hardware manipulations.
>>>
>>> My first attempt at learning is to install the SANE front & backends to
>>> make my Microtek Scanjet 4800 scanner operative. I've downloaded the
>>> update files from SANE and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to
>>> install it. Is there any documentation that I can refer to regarding the
>>> steps\operations necessary for this attempt? (They will need to be rather
>>> basic as my knowledge is very skimpy at this time.)
>>>
>>> Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated![/color]
>>
>>
>> if installed firefox browser use the ubuntu package search engine[/color][/color]

[Clarification: if Firefox is installed, it will have a search box
next to the address bar, including a drop-down which will let you
change the search engine. One of the configured search engines
searches for Ubuntu packages and/or documentation. However, this is
probably not what you want to try first. See below.]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> ask for xsane and sane and libsane
>>
>> install these files :D
>>
>> maybe they would ask more files then install these as well
>>
>> succes[/color]
>
> I guess my level of "expertise" didn't come across low enough - how does
> one go about "installing these files :D"?[/color]

Before searching as Johan suggested, you probably want to try using
the Synaptic package manager, which is available from one of the menus
at the top of Ubuntu's desktop, though it might have a "helpful"
description in the menu instead of "Synaptic". You may need to add the
"universe" and/or "multiverse" repositories, using Synaptic's
configuration options, in order to add teh SANE packages. The
advantage of using Synaptic is that any libraries SANE depends on will
be installed automatically. With a little luck, your hardware will
probably be detected automatically during installation too. If not,
Google is always your friend:
<http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:ubuntuforums.org+ubuntu+sane>


PJR :-)
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:54:14 +0000, Peter J Ross wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:15:52 -0700, Tom Clydesdale
> <t.clydes@comcast.net> wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
>[color=green]
>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:22:26 +0100, Johan wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Tom Clydesdale wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm a long time MSDOS/Windows user who is trying to get an understanding
>>>> ofof Linux (my current version is Ubuntu v5.10). My past includes
>>>> programming in IBM 1401, COBOL, Pascal and some C and a lot of various
>>>> hardware manipulations.
>>>>
>>>> My first attempt at learning is to install the SANE front & backends to
>>>> make my Microtek Scanjet 4800 scanner operative. I've downloaded the
>>>> update files from SANE and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to
>>>> install it. Is there any documentation that I can refer to regarding the
>>>> steps\operations necessary for this attempt? (They will need to be rather
>>>> basic as my knowledge is very skimpy at this time.)
>>>>
>>>> Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>>
>>> if installed firefox browser use the ubuntu package search engine[/color][/color]
>
> [Clarification: if Firefox is installed, it will have a search box
> next to the address bar, including a drop-down which will let you
> change the search engine. One of the configured search engines
> searches for Ubuntu packages and/or documentation. However, this is
> probably not what you want to try first. See below.]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> ask for xsane and sane and libsane
>>>
>>> install these files :D
>>>
>>> maybe they would ask more files then install these as well
>>>
>>> succes[/color]
>>
>> I guess my level of "expertise" didn't come across low enough - how does
>> one go about "installing these files :D"?[/color]
>
> Before searching as Johan suggested, you probably want to try using
> the Synaptic package manager, which is available from one of the menus
> at the top of Ubuntu's desktop, though it might have a "helpful"
> description in the menu instead of "Synaptic". You may need to add the
> "universe" and/or "multiverse" repositories, using Synaptic's
> configuration options, in order to add teh SANE packages. The
> advantage of using Synaptic is that any libraries SANE depends on will
> be installed automatically. With a little luck, your hardware will
> probably be detected automatically during installation too. If not,
> Google is always your friend:
> <http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:ubuntuforums.org+ubuntu+sane>
>
>
> PJR :-)[/color]

Peter and Johan I wish to give you my deepest thanks - it is now working
and I have moved to the next level of trying to display and work on the
images (Gimp I think is my next challange)>