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Asked: 2018-07-17 20:10:56 +0800 CST

No scanner in Gimp 2.10 Bionic

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In 18.04, have a networked Brother MFC-J870DW, which works fine in gscan2pdf, Simple Scan & Gimp 2.8. However, Gimp 2.10 can't find it. Meaning, there is no scanner listed when I select File > Create. I suspect I need to point Gimp to xsane. Looking for help to do this. Thanks.

networking gimp scanner xsane

2 Answers

  1. You don't need a ppa, just

    sudo apt install xsane

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  2. As you have installed GIMP as FlatPak I suggest to remove this FlatPak version with

    flatpak uninstall flathub org.gimp.GIMP

    and then install normal deb-based version 2.8 with

    sudo apt-get install gimp

    or get 2.10 from PPA:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
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