[SOLVED] Installing Scanner

johnnyfiver · 11-21-2018, 11:49 AM

Good day,

I am trying to install a brother ads2700w scanner. When I run the package I receive a message libjpeg8 is required. I have installed libjpeg62-turbo-dev but still receive message that the libjpeg8 is required. Anyone out there can help?

hazel · 11-22-2018, 05:47 AM

Your scanner driver needs a more recent jpeg library than you have on your system. You haven't said what Linux distribution you are using (I notice that you posted from a Mac). When asking this sort of question, you should always include your distro and version right at the beginning.

Some distros have libjpeg8 available as a separate package. Have you checked your package manager for this?

Installing libjpeg62-turbo-dev will not help you. These development packages are essential when building software locally from source code, but that's not your problem here.

It's your bad luck that your scanner driver needs a graphics format package to function. Most of them don't.

johnnyfiver · 11-22-2018, 12:06 PM

Sorry I am using mx17.1

hazel · 11-22-2018, 01:07 PM

OK. Fire up synaptic and see if you can find libjpeg8. It may be there; mx is a Debian derivative and Debian has it in the unstable branch. If you can't find a version for mx, you'll have to build it by hand.

rokytnji · 11-22-2018, 02:16 PM

Post after

Code:

sudo apt-get update

The readout of

Code:

inxi -r

MX has test repos most new users are unaware of. I am on AntiX presently.

How I search

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ apt search  libjpeg
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
gem-plugin-jpeg/stable 1:0.93.3-10+b3 amd64
  Graphics Environment for Multimedia - JPEG support

imgsizer/stable,stable 2.7-3 all
  Adds WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes to IMG tags in HTML files

jp2a/stable 1.0.6-7 amd64
  converts jpg images to ascii

libjpeg-dev/stable,stable 1:1.5.1-2 all
  Development files for the JPEG library [dummy package]

libjpeg-turbo-progs/stable 1:1.5.1-2 amd64
  Programs for manipulating JPEG files

libjpeg62-turbo/stable,now 1:1.5.1-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  libjpeg-turbo JPEG runtime library

libjpeg62-turbo-dev/stable 1:1.5.1-2 amd64
  Development files for the libjpeg-turbo JPEG library

libjpeg8/stretch,now 8d1-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime library

libturbojpeg0/stable 1:1.5.1-2 amd64
  TurboJPEG runtime library - SIMD optimized

libturbojpeg0-dev/stable 1:1.5.1-2 amd64
  Development files for the TurboJPEG library

Ask over here. They will either find it or package it for you.
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewforum.php?f=55

or search like so

https://forum.mxlinux.org/search.php?keywords=libjpeg8

Happy Thanksgiving. Bye.

johnnyfiver · 11-27-2018, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

OK. Fire up synaptic and see if you can find libjpeg8. It may be there; mx is a Debian derivative and Debian has it in the unstable branch. If you can't find a version for mx, you'll have to build it by hand.

thank you this fixed my issue.